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the AI won't ever have more [...] capabilities to hack and destroy infrastructure than Russia, China or the US itself.

Having better hacking capability than China seems like a low bar for super-human AGI. The AGI would need to be better at writing and understanding code than a small group of talented humans, and have access to some servers. This sounds easy if you accept the premise of smarter-than-human AGI.

Merely listing EA under "Memetics adjacence" does not support the claim "is also an avowed effective altruist."

it's the arguments you least agree with that you should extend the most charity to

I strongly disagree with flat earthers, but I don't think that I should extend a lot of charity to arguments for a flat earth.

Also, on a quick skim, I could not find where this is argued for in the linked "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup"

Caveat: I consider these minor issues, I hope I don't come across as too accusatory.

Interesting, why's that? :)

It seems that the reason for cross-posting was that you personally found it interesting. If you use the EA forum team account, it sounds a bit like an "official" endorsement, and makes the Forum Team less neutral.

Even if you use another account name (eg "selected linkposts") that is run by the Forum Team, I think there should be some explanation how those linkposts are selected, otherwise it seems like arbitrarily privileging some stuff over other stuff.

A "LinkpostBot" account would be good if the cross-posting is automated (e.g. every ACX article who mentions Effective Altruism).

I also personally feel kinda weird getting karma for just linking to someone else's work

I think its fine to gain Karma by virtue of linkposting and being an active forum member, I will not be bothered by it and I think you should not worry about that (although i can understand that it might feel uncomfortable to you). Other people are also allowed to link-post.

Personally when I see a linkpost, I generally assume that the author here is also the original author

I think starting the title with [linkpost] fixes that issue.

I think its best to post this under your own account.

there are so many projects which continuously replicate what others have done before; projects with very similar messages, but mostly separate communities, infrastructures and identities.

Some examples would be useful.

have you seen someone that is not top 10 attendee in an EA organization?

Julia Wise, who works at CEA, studied at Bryn Mawr College.

(Another comment of yours makes me think by "top 10 attendee" you mean "has attended a top 10 university".)

the child is adding an expected value of $27,275 per year in social surplus.

It would take $133,333 per year to raise a child to adulthood for it to not be worthwhile

I think the comparison of "social surplus" to effective donations is mistaken here. A social surplus of $27,275 (in the US) does not save 5 lives, but an effective donation of that size might.

There used to be such a system: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YhPWq784eRDr5999P/announcing-the-ea-donation-swap-system It got shut down 7 months ago (see the comments on that post).

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