My guess is people are (reasonably in my view) reading “reliance on billionaires is not the way” as “stop trying to get money out of billionaires, or at least do it less”, and not merely “in an ideal world, billionaires would not be the main funders of EA causes, and plausibly wouldn’t exist at all”.
My guess is people are (reasonably in my view) reading “reliance on billionaires is not the way” as “stop trying to get money out of billionaires, or at least do it less”, and not merely “in an ideal world, billionaires would not be the main funders of EA causes, and plausibly wouldn’t exist at all”.