I agree with the last point, and I think EA is doing fairly well on the being sympathetic to Matt Yglesias front:
he donated his stimulus check to GiveWell https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1371137697746681858?s=20
he appeared on Julia Galef‘s Rationally Speaking podcast and iirc voiced pretty strong support of rationalist ideals http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/episode-251-the-case-for-one-billion-americans-more-matt-ygl.html
I agree with the last point, and I think EA is doing fairly well on the being sympathetic to Matt Yglesias front:
he donated his stimulus check to GiveWell https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1371137697746681858?s=20
he appeared on Julia Galef‘s Rationally Speaking podcast and iirc voiced pretty strong support of rationalist ideals http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/episode-251-the-case-for-one-billion-americans-more-matt-ygl.html