[Aunche]

The difference is that EA is nothing like religious fundamentalism. No one is pressuring you to work in HFT or donate to AI risk if you don't want to.

[ben_w]

You say that, but I literally just listend to a podcast of someone talking about their efforts to convince people to work on AI risk.

[Aunche]

So they're a bad person because they are trying to convince people to allocate their resources in a way that you think is sub-optimal? By that logic, most of the people on HN are bad people because they work at ad-tech companies.

[ben_w]

?

I didn’t say “bad”. But they are trying to convince people to work in AI risk who otherwise wouldn’t have chosen to.

Pressure? Perhaps not. But then again, pressure can be an irregular verb: “I encourage, you persuade, he pressures” ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation