[etrautmann]

I think the argument is that a huge number of the EA types have been caught without their pants on in the FTX / SBF / Alameda fiasco. Those like Will McAskill have distanced themselves, but it still gives the collection of people a look that isn't great, even if it doesn't tarnish the conceptual basis of EA, as philosophized. Perhaps in practice, maximizing wealth leads ones to do morally sketchy things under the moral cover of maximizing good.

[sshine]

> Perhaps in practice, maximizing wealth leads ones to do morally sketchy things under the moral cover of maximizing good.

And perhaps, in the process of maximizing wealth for good, the goblin whispers in your ear to keep some for yourself.