One application of this line of reasoning here is, as @Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸 has said more than once, including here, is that being friends and part of a single community seems to have dampened people’s ability to fight over what people should do, and oppose the labs.
I’ll point to my dated but still relevant counterpoint: the way that EA has been built is worrying, and EA as a global community that functions as a high-trust collaborative society is bad. This conclusion was tentative at the time, and I think has been embraced to a very limited extent since then—but the concerns seem not to be noted in your post.
One application of this line of reasoning here is, as @Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸 has said more than once, including here, is that being friends and part of a single community seems to have dampened people’s ability to fight over what people should do, and oppose the labs.