Fair. tbh it's a more likely explanation than alt account

How much of this is just urbanisation effect and average age of rural resident resident being older

Yay! look forward to the German all the bashing (figurative of course)!

you say tearing apart, he would say terraforming

Biased or they self-censor and avoid offensive topics? I think it's more the latter

Of course that's an extreme example, and the more common example might be donating to a local charity vs one in a poor region where it has 50-1000x the impact

Bit sad EA has been co-opted by these "longtermists" (a term you never used in your article?)

I always thought EA was a pretty simple philosophy that was extremely demanding of its practitioners. If your coffee could buy a mosquito net that could save a life, is it wrong to buy that coffee?