I don’t know where you would go to get more quantitative evidence of this (the EA survey?) but the headline claim matches my experience. Many longtermist EAs seem to be highly motivated by “creating huge numbers of future happy people” sorts of arguments that fall flat from a (strongly) person-affecting view.
I don’t know where you would go to get more quantitative evidence of this (the EA survey?) but the headline claim matches my experience. Many longtermist EAs seem to be highly motivated by “creating huge numbers of future happy people” sorts of arguments that fall flat from a (strongly) person-affecting view.