One of the problems I observe in forum posts from these communities is that it is fun and cool to think differently than others. "What if fighting poverty now i

One of the problems I observe in forum posts from these communities is that it is fun and cool to think differently than others. "What if fighting poverty now is actually bad and preventing the AI apocalypse later is actually better?" Then you get to feel superior to everybody, even those goody-two-shoes people down the street that donate a lot to the food bank. You know the secrets. It is the same kind of thinking that makes people think that Roko's Basilisk is cool or frightening or meaningful. It makes you feel like you have secret knowledge that others do not. But... because we tend to interrogate our second option less than our first option people end up throwing their EA money at fucking ridiculous things while there are people out there dying in childbirth because their local hospital doesn't have consistent electricity. "Yeah, I just have a different value function than everybody else" does not absolve people from the criticism that their value function is stupid.