Someone lying about doing EA is not doing EA. They’re doing fraud. There’s the EA movement proper, which I don’t know much about. And then there’s EA the princ

Someone lying about doing EA is not doing EA. They’re doing fraud. There’s the EA movement proper, which I don’t know much about. And then there’s EA the principle, which just says that you should probably prioritize giving that is effective rather than giving that makes you feel good (since human ethical intuition isn’t tuned very well here). Not much to disagree on there. It’s unfortunate that SBF’s fall has diverted attention from this. (Paraphrasing Sam Harris’s most recent podcast here, https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes)