...what? Are you really claiming that EA is bad for... advocating for public policy around AI xrisk, rather than just writing off the government entirely? That

...what? Are you really claiming that EA is bad for... advocating for public policy around AI xrisk, rather than just writing off the government entirely? That EA is at fault for the leading AI companies having profit motivations, and that somehow they are less interested in safety than without it? That EA should reject people who come to us because, by knowing us for being in the news, they aren't what, ethically pure enough? > It is inevitable that the EA brand will now be associated with irrational feminized college students rather than interesting quantitative thinkers willing to bite socially undesirable bullets. In all my interactions with EAs I... what? What?? You are right that at least one trad EA thinks this reads like a strawman. I'm sorry you've had whatever experience led you to this. Maybe visit Cambridge sometime.