money can be used to help fund or attract attention for just about any other project or argument you care to have succeed
So, we have a lot of people here who claim to want to save the world or live forever or be a consequentialist altruist.
Money has high leverage on these problems. Furthermore, since there are many such people here, if we all just acted together and made an extra $100,000 each on average in the next 3 years, problems such as FAI could get a cash bonus of approximately 500*100,000 = $50M.
So, we have a lot of people here who claim to want to save the world or live forever or be a consequentialist altruist.
Money has high leverage on these problems. Furthermore, since there are many such people here, if we all just acted together and made an extra $100,000 each on average in the next 3 years, problems such as FAI could get a cash bonus of approximately 500*100,000 = $50M.
Same with status. I made a similar argument in this exchange, in case you haven’t already seen it.