I just dislike how SBF and many others of approximately the same moral fiber use EA as a way to build up their reputation as some sort of noble philanthropist.

I just dislike how SBF and many others of approximately the same moral fiber use EA as a way to build up their reputation as some sort of noble philanthropist. Its an old and obvious trick. EA itself is not necessarily bad or discredited, but ultimately im not interested in some theoretical definition of EA. What matters is who the real people practicing EA actually do with the money, and many of those people are like Sam in my opinion. Many are NOT frauds and genuinely do want to help people too, so of course it doesn't completely discredit EA either. Its just sort of stupid how much its talked about as if the idea of trying to do the most good with the least resources is some kind of gigabrain idea. No, thats literally what any sincere charity aims to do.