More generally, you keep trying to frame your points as politically neutral “meta” considerations but it definitely feels like you have an axe to grind against the activist left which motivates a lot of what you’re saying.
Well if EA is funding the activist left, justifying it by saying that a “trusted expert” (who just happens to be a leftist activist!) said it was a good idea, what exactly do you expect me to do?
And if people who disagree with leftist activism aren’t allowed to bring up “meta” considerations when those considerations are inconvenient for leftist activism, then who is going to do it?
Well if EA is funding the activist left, justifying it by saying that a “trusted expert” (who just happens to be a leftist activist!) said it was a good idea, what exactly do you expect me to do?
And if people who disagree with leftist activism aren’t allowed to bring up “meta” considerations when those considerations are inconvenient for leftist activism, then who is going to do it?