There seem to be many people in the effective altruism movement, and also it's "longtermism" fraction, that try to think about the trade-offs alluded to in the

There seem to be many people in the effective altruism movement, and also it's "longtermism" fraction, that try to think about the trade-offs alluded to in the article very carefully and in a structured way. The article seems to be straw-maning that somewhat and buries valid arguments in lots of flowery rhetorics? Surely, there are simple arguments around discounting and uncertainty of estimates to be be made, to first criticise points within, say, Bostrom's framework, before moving on to broader moral appeals? The 80k hours podcast has some interesting episodes related to considerations around that and the wider EA community: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/ https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/