Comment by tptacek

I read the top reply. What, exactly, about it do you find persuasive? To me, it seems like a pretty great illustration of one of the major critiques of EA: it introduces a set of vague axioms that are then used to build arguments for all sorts of silly, compromised arguments, like "we should buy a ￡15MM estate" or "we should divert money from the poor to AI research".