Incredible article! What strikes me about EA is the lack of values around family, community, or civics. If you value the life and happiness of every human on

Incredible article! What strikes me about EA is the lack of values around family, community, or civics. If you value the life and happiness of every human on the planet equally, except maybe yourself, I’d venture to say you are not ok. You have no friends/family/connections/support/village/etc). Math and abstract virtue in the mind can’t replace that. I don’t know that I’d sacrifice my life for any number of others. But I care about my friends and acquaintances. Some of them are not ok. I’d rather lift them out of poverty, or get them decent healthcare, than save a life on the other side of the planet. I’d rather try to influence voters and the political process in my own state and country, or help house the homeless in my town. I have about 400 Facebook friends, and some are billionaires, some are broke, maybe a few are homeless or on the edge of homelessness. You can’t save the world if you can’t create a microcosm of the world you want to live in, around yourself, with real heartfelt connections.