> And a general feeling that at least the part of EA that Sam related to is a 21st century version of an ideology allowing the powerful to get an excuse for wha

> And a general feeling that at least the part of EA that Sam related to is a 21st century version of an ideology allowing the powerful to get an excuse for whatever they feel like doing from the present day equivalent of the priesthood. I think this is the core of what irks me of the movement: it's one thing that their reasoning is often simplistic and arrogantly assumes you can distill the entire world, including its far future, down to some simple formulas - but they are also far too attracted to "repugnant conclusions" than for me to be comfortable. I find it suspicious how much of their reasoning just happens to justify assholish behaviour and promotes a social darwinist survival-of-the-strongest worldview, all in the name of altruism.