I come in peace, but I want to flag that this claim will sound breathtakingly arrogant to many people not fully immersed in the EA bubble, and to me:
I’m probably not phrasing this well, but to give a sense of my priors: I guess my impression is that my interactions with approximately every entity that perceives themself as directly doing good outside of EA* is that they are not seeking truth, and this systematically corrupts them in important ways.
Do you mean:
a) They don’t make truth-seeking as high a priority as they should (relative to, say, hands-on work for change)?
b) They try to understand what’s true, but their feeble non-EA efforts go nowhere?
c) They make zero effort to seek the truth? (“Not seeking truth”)
d) They don’t care in the slightest what the truth is?
These are worth distinguishing, at least in communications that might plausibly be read by non-EAs. Someone could read what you wrote and conclude, or at least conclude you believe, that before EA the intersection of people who were very concerned about what was true, and people who were trying hard to make the world a better place, was negligible. That would be unfortunate.
Ah I thought maybe this was like chess boxing