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I wouldn't characterize it as hate for charity. I'd characterize it as hate for "Here's the handbook for what words to say, so that when you make scads of money doing evil things, you can maximize the amount of good reputation your dollars buy".

I'm confident that there are lots of people who are part of EA for the reasons the EA community advocates. My expectation is that the dollar weighted average of participants motivations would be more cynical. I think the parallel to religious participation kind of writes itself.



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