The endless debate loop around EA: attacking people, then ideas, then back to people
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-19
AndyMasley lays out a recurring rhetorical cycle in online anti-EA discourse: "EAs are terrible people" → "many are nice" → "nice people can have terrible ideas" → debate the ideas → "we can't trust their ideas because they're terrible people." A pointed observation on how the argument never lands anywhere.
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