Can you say why you think it’s absurd? A lot of people doing seemingly impactful work say that the EA community substantially helped them (see above). The arguments I know of which claim that the harms from FTX outweigh this deny the assumption that EA work is actually impactful (specifically: they usually say something like 1. AI is the only thing that matters, and 2. EA work on RLHF etc. sped up capabilities more than safety, making the average impact small/​negative).
If this is your view than fair enough, but it’s not one that I (or, I think, most people) share.
Can you say why you think it’s absurd? A lot of people doing seemingly impactful work say that the EA community substantially helped them (see above). The arguments I know of which claim that the harms from FTX outweigh this deny the assumption that EA work is actually impactful (specifically: they usually say something like 1. AI is the only thing that matters, and 2. EA work on RLHF etc. sped up capabilities more than safety, making the average impact small/​negative).
If this is your view than fair enough, but it’s not one that I (or, I think, most people) share.