The EA combination of extreme moral certainty and desire for power with Martian-who-just-discovered-earthlings level understanding of humanity is incredibly dangerous. Closest comparison is pre-Khrushchev Communists.
https://twitter.com/captgouda24/status/1918783625060851744
EA appeals to a very similar demographic (intelligent, but otherwise deficient STEM-adjacent intelligentsia) to Communism and is already implicated in one massive disaster (the Boriswave), and, like Communism has far too much cachet and influence among public intellectuals. 
As an aside, this post also made me much more anti-gay. Gays generally don't have kids and lead lifestyles incompatible with the survival of society (both STDs and sterility), which wouldn't be so bad (they're a small minority), except they're also very disproportionately culturally and politically influential *and* do their best to both normalize their own practices among everyone else and denormalize (personally and societally) healthy ones. Like monogamy.
There are a number of logical and empirical arguments for monogamy (pair bonding required for long-term child raising, reducing negative-sum intrasexual conflict, STDs, actual fertility, and reducing jealousy, historically monogamous peoples are far more intelligent and generally accomplished - probably more I haven't thought of), but that's not the point. As a rule "I, extremely abnormal gay autist, can't think of a reason for it, therefore we need to get rid of this already damaged sexual/romantic norm" is always a terrible line of thought. Same one that led to this guy's infamous "you should cuck yourself with genius sperm" post. If you don't understand people to that extent, you should not be aspiring to a position of influence at all.
There are a number of logical and empirical arguments for monogamy (pair bonding required for long-term child raising, reducing negative-sum intrasexual conflict, STDs, actual fertility, and reducing jealousy, historically monogamous peoples are far more intelligent and generally accomplished - probably more I haven't thought of), but that's not the point. As a rule "I, extremely abnormal gay autist, can't think of a reason for it, therefore we need to get rid of this already damaged sexual/romantic norm" is always a terrible line of thought. Same one that led to this guy's infamous "you should cuck yourself with genius sperm" post. If you don't understand people to that extent, you should not be aspiring to a position of influence at all.
EA was OK when it was a front for normalizing AI risk and eugenics, not so much now when it's trying to fully realize the goals of the New Left.
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