EA is not a monolith. There is no book that has the moral framework of EA written in stone. Some people in this community most certainly are utilitarians, others aren’t.
If you want to argue what a decentralized movement is, you need to define who gets included, and then a system for weighting each agent’s values as a part of the whole.
For instance, we might say, EA is composed of any agent who has attended an EAG. Then we might specify that what EA is “based in” is the weighted sum of each agent’s values, where the weighting system is how many resources an agent controls.
EA is not a monolith. There is no book that has the moral framework of EA written in stone. Some people in this community most certainly are utilitarians, others aren’t.
If you want to argue what a decentralized movement is, you need to define who gets included, and then a system for weighting each agent’s values as a part of the whole.
For instance, we might say, EA is composed of any agent who has attended an EAG. Then we might specify that what EA is “based in” is the weighted sum of each agent’s values, where the weighting system is how many resources an agent controls.