> I've heard this exact same sentiment about another popular Effective Altruist in the past year. I will let the reader guess which one. I may be missing somet

> I've heard this exact same sentiment about another popular Effective Altruist in the past year. I will let the reader guess which one. I may be missing something, as I don't really follow this "community" besides reading the occasional Slate Star Codex post or whatever. But I don't see much ground for comparison here. SBF (who I assume you're referring to) was in much different position with regards to potential harm as a result of con man antics than EY is. (As far as I can tell). SBF was managing billions of dollars. EY is not. If SBF turns out to be a scammer, real people lose money. If EY is a scammer... then so what? He publishes a bunch of blog posts crying doom about AI that suddenly look less sincere? To what end? I can't see a good reason at this time for assuming his reasons are anything less than what he claims they are.