It is fascinating how lots of people seem to genuinely have the mental association "EAs = people who are anti-technology"

Of course it makes sense if 2023 AI stuff is one's first introduction to internet nerd subcultures, but even two years ago that characterization would have seemed completely incomprehensible.

I think that alliance has genuinely been forged in 2023. It’s not a misunderstanding or illusion. 

And it has been at least a half-serious joke for years (the idea that EAs think  “correct” Bayesian analysis must conclude stopping AGI is the most important problem to work on… heard it first around 2018 iirc)