How can you justify sitting on a world-historical level of wealth and not immediately distributing it to the most needy? This makes the whole EA worldview immediately suspect. The long-term future project is a smokescreen for allowing the most powerful individuals the world has ever created to continue their efforts to shape the world toward their own benefit. A responsible use would be to empower local democratic projects, social-welfare states, and anti-authoritarian movements. The median poor person of the impoverished Global South suffering from food scarcity should have a majority of seats at the table – not just wealthy Western intellectuals.
How can you justify sitting on a world-historical level of wealth and not immediately distributing it to the most needy? This makes the whole EA worldview immediately suspect. The long-term future project is a smokescreen for allowing the most powerful individuals the world has ever created to continue their efforts to shape the world toward their own benefit. A responsible use would be to empower local democratic projects, social-welfare states, and anti-authoritarian movements. The median poor person of the impoverished Global South suffering from food scarcity should have a majority of seats at the table – not just wealthy Western intellectuals.