I'm not going to read all of that. Responding to a series of increasingly long replies is a negative-sum game.

I'll respond to a few choice parts though:

Examples?

Most of this thread: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/jyl/two_arguments_for_not_thinking_about_ethics_too/

I may not be able to do FAI research, but I can do what I'm actually doing, which is donating a significant fraction of my income to people who can.

But why do you care about that? It's grossly improbable that out of the vast space of things-to-protect, you were dispotitioned to care about that thing before hearing of the concept. So you're probably just shopping for a cause in exactly the way EY advises against.

To put it another way... for the vast majorty of humans, their real thing-to-protect is probably their children, or their lover, or their closest friend. The fact that this is overwhelmingly underrepresented on LW indicates something funny is going on.