I am writing here because the EA community should know now, that sentiment in global health and poverty, and animal welfare, is extremely low, especially among limited talent.
As EAs know, the FTX money favored longtermist causes. In the aftermath of the FTX collapse, EA is globally harmed, further disadvantaging these causes already in the shadow of this money.
The departure of this talent could be a wholesale disaster for EA, and leave it in a permanent weakened state. It is not being discussed, like dangers, such as the risk of FTX, due to the dynamics of EA discourse, which is easily dominated by full time influencers like Yudhowsky.
In this vulnerable state, undue attempts to associate Peter Singer, “EA”, and undue attempts to dissasociate “LW” and “rationality”, are an incredibly uncooperative defection.
Yudkowsky wrote this above.
It would be wild to see anyone defend or explain the terms “Singer side” or “twisting people’s brains” in this context, much less the intentional act implied.
This is a flat out attack that uses ideas and sentiment from actual criticisms of MIRI/LW, which I do not cite, because it is inflammatory. This is likely to preempt anticipated future criticism using these arguments.