I think that you are right as far as it coming down to “the eye of the beholder”.
I had a related conversation about a year ago, and the best I could come up with was a sort of two by two matrix, with behavior and self-proclaimed identity. I find that framework useful in the context of MRBeast’s video, as I find my intuition leaning toward considering him aligned with some EA ideas, or adjacent to EA, but since he hasn’t (to my knowledge) claimed himself as an EA, I would hesitate to say that he is an EA.
I think that you are right as far as it coming down to “the eye of the beholder”.
I had a related conversation about a year ago, and the best I could come up with was a sort of two by two matrix, with behavior and self-proclaimed identity. I find that framework useful in the context of MRBeast’s video, as I find my intuition leaning toward considering him aligned with some EA ideas, or adjacent to EA, but since he hasn’t (to my knowledge) claimed himself as an EA, I would hesitate to say that he is an EA.