> How do philosophers go from something like GiveWell to something like fending off the AI apocalypse? It's simply that writers like to write, forum commenters

> How do philosophers go from something like GiveWell to something like fending off the AI apocalypse? It's simply that writers like to write, forum commenters like to comment, philosophy academics like to publish papers, and there's only so many ways you can rehash The Life You Can Save. Advocating for mosquito nets and praziquantel is like advocating that programmers should use version control - it may be true, but it's not going to drive traffic to your blog or impress people with how forward-thinking you are. The people who haven't expanded their ideology in debatable directions aren't getting to the front page of HN.