Oh totally agreed. I'm just saying, if you, as this theoretical rich or soon-to-be-rich EA believer, are committed to improving the world by attaining and using

Oh totally agreed. I'm just saying, if you, as this theoretical rich or soon-to-be-rich EA believer, are committed to improving the world by attaining and using wealth, there are problems out there than can indeed be solved with just... a big ass check. Those exist. But most of them are also pretty boring. People need things, and you can provide them things. But because they're boring, they never end up on an EA's radar. No, instead let's dump shit tons of cash into a nonprofit that will create AI and also create tools to stop the AI they created from killing us all with nukes.