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EA is about things that are relatively easy to measure, and causing political change is hard to measure.
Goodhart, of course: after a short time, only the metric counts.
The solution is obvious: I create enough simulations that are good enough to constitute sentient beings, and make them all happy, that this adds up to MUCH more goodness than my present day job running a highly profitable baby mulching operation to fund it all. Like buying "asshole offsets".