Huh? "Humanity is doomed because AI arms races are impossible to avert" and "most existing AI safety efforts are a grift that demands $$ without any plan to do anything useful with it" aren't contradictory! They could both be true at the same time!https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KnQs55tjxWopCzKsk/the-ai-timelines-scam …
Not even close to contradictory - the theoretical ideal grift would be to take money to produce nothing but the problem you're investigating is real and can be used to make a persuasive pitch. Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky is basically the platonic form of a grifter.