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EA is a philosophy, or a mindset. It is not defined by the actions of some group of people that pretend to follow it. There will always be some % of cheaters i

• PragmaticPulp 4y ago
  There are definitely EA organizations and figureheads like MacAskill operating under the EA name. You can call it an abstract philosophy, but there are actual organizations leading the charge, collecting funds, and doing things with them (like buying castles). I don’t find it compelling to argue that all of these EA orgs and people are somehow not true EA when the movement and money flow seemingly revolves around them.
• inertiatic 4y ago
  Do you think the same argument applies to communism?
  • cutemonster 4y ago
    A broken comparison. Communism is fundamentally bad, both the idea and implementations. Comparing EA with education is better. Education is a fundamentally good idea, however, there exist corrupt universities and teachers, e.g. giving students too good grades, just to attract more students and funding. Or teachers asking for bribes. But that doesn't make education as a concept, a bad idea. And EA-the-concept: thinking about how you spend any money you donate, instead of following your first impulses and feelings -- that is, like education, a fundamentally good idea. But just like there are corrupt people in the education system, there are in EA as well. And there are more in EA (or so it seems), because EA involves more money (and prestige?).