I thought I had become so deadened to the insanity of the existential risk / effective altruism troops that I would just stop reading about it & advised others simply not to give it the oxygen of publicity and thereby hope it would sputter out. I was wrong. Emily Benders new oped https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f is not only right in every word but also laugh out loud funny. Bravo.