Maybe not all of them, but since a lot of recruiting is done at universities, where people are in their formative years, I believe the previous poster does have a point.
There are probably quite a few people just who want to do good, and get suckered into longtermism which results in them doing AI research instead.
You can actually see some of them in the EA forums, where they discuss this struggle.
Of course, as a lot of things surrounding EA, this is ironically quite hard to quantify ;)
Btw. please don't take it as an attack on EA as a concept, I believe that it has much to give provided it is not mixed with too much pseudo long-term thinking as described in the article, which in the end has way too much uncertainty in it for my taste.
There are probably quite a few people just who want to do good, and get suckered into longtermism which results in them doing AI research instead.
You can actually see some of them in the EA forums, where they discuss this struggle.
Of course, as a lot of things surrounding EA, this is ironically quite hard to quantify ;)
Btw. please don't take it as an attack on EA as a concept, I believe that it has much to give provided it is not mixed with too much pseudo long-term thinking as described in the article, which in the end has way too much uncertainty in it for my taste.