That essay kind of straw-mans the whole thing. He uses EA to alternatively mean the foundational philosophy, or the specific organization and the choices the pe

That essay kind of straw-mans the whole thing. He uses EA to alternatively mean the foundational philosophy, or the specific organization and the choices the people running it make, interchangeably. "I don't think AI is a risk, so I'm opposed to EA" charitably means that that person is opposed to EA, the organization headed by the people named in the article, and the choices they have made, who have made themselves the face of the movement with the same name. It doesn't mean they think that helping people is bad. It's one of those fun language tricks groups get to play when there's a movement of some sort, and then a specific organization pops up with the exact same name. Black Lives Matter famously did the same thing; great movement, but the organization with the same name has done some questionable things with the money they were given.