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		creatonez 67 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guess I'm a rationalist now It is true that there were EAs before the conception of "longtermism" that were relatively mundane and actually helping humanity, and not part of a death cult. But those have been shunned from the EA movement for a while now.

comp_throw7 67 days ago | [–]

Global Health & Development is like 40% of EA funding today. Please stop making things up.

lechatonnoir 66 days ago | [–]

I think you're conflating different groups of people pretty severely.

"shunned" in particular is a really strong word, e.g, global health and biosecurity are two of the named categories at the most central EA events:

https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ea-global/events/ea-global...

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