“Rich people” already give the lions share to anti malaria charities, just as virtually all of Earth’s economic surplus (for now, pre-AGI) comes from fairly-high-IQ people doing functionally prosocial things. The question is not “is standard EA behavior better than good embryo selection”—effective altruism exists because there are enough altruistic intelligent people around to be EAs—but how good existing methods are, and what runway we have to use them.
“Rich people” already give the lions share to anti malaria charities, just as virtually all of Earth’s economic surplus (for now, pre-AGI) comes from fairly-high-IQ people doing functionally prosocial things. The question is not “is standard EA behavior better than good embryo selection”—effective altruism exists because there are enough altruistic intelligent people around to be EAs—but how good existing methods are, and what runway we have to use them.