I appreciate this informative comment. I’ve got a couple of relevant points to add.
1. As a community coordinator for EA, a few years ago I was aware more in EA were interested in dating others in the community. I shared a link to reciprocity.io around in EA Facebook groups like EA Hangout. This got a few more hundred people to get on reciprocity. I talked to Katja Grace, who originally had the idea.
Reciprocity.io was written to support the much smaller Bay Area rationality community, which had the time had over 100 people but not too many more than that. So many in EA getting on reciprocity.io caused it to crash. The code wasn’t particularly worth saving and at the time Katja suggested that if someone wanted, it might be better to make a newer, better site from scratch.
2. As far as I’m aware, LGBTQ+ people are significantly overrepresented in the EA community relatve to the background population. I don’t know how much of this is determined by feeder communities for EA, i.e., how much the communities people find EA from are themselves disproportionately representative of the LGBTQ+ community. Feeder communities for EA include:
animal advocacy movements
organizations focused on particular causes in the non-profit sector
startup culture
transhumanism
rationality
etc.
Caveats: I don’t know more specifically than that how the representation for LGBTQ+ folks in EA skews. By representation I mean statistical representation, not representation of LGBTQ+ as identities. Neither am I suggesting that anyone ought to infer anything else about the experiences and status of LGBTQ+ folks in the EA community based just on the fact they’re overrepresented in the EA community.
I haven’t put any thoughts into how this otherwise impacts the gender ratio of the EA community or dating prospects for individual community members therein. I just offer the info in case it inspires others’ insights about intra-community dating and relationships.
I appreciate this informative comment. I’ve got a couple of relevant points to add.
1. As a community coordinator for EA, a few years ago I was aware more in EA were interested in dating others in the community. I shared a link to reciprocity.io around in EA Facebook groups like EA Hangout. This got a few more hundred people to get on reciprocity. I talked to Katja Grace, who originally had the idea.
Reciprocity.io was written to support the much smaller Bay Area rationality community, which had the time had over 100 people but not too many more than that. So many in EA getting on reciprocity.io caused it to crash. The code wasn’t particularly worth saving and at the time Katja suggested that if someone wanted, it might be better to make a newer, better site from scratch.
2. As far as I’m aware, LGBTQ+ people are significantly overrepresented in the EA community relatve to the background population. I don’t know how much of this is determined by feeder communities for EA, i.e., how much the communities people find EA from are themselves disproportionately representative of the LGBTQ+ community. Feeder communities for EA include:
animal advocacy movements
organizations focused on particular causes in the non-profit sector
startup culture
transhumanism
rationality
etc.
Caveats: I don’t know more specifically than that how the representation for LGBTQ+ folks in EA skews. By representation I mean statistical representation, not representation of LGBTQ+ as identities. Neither am I suggesting that anyone ought to infer anything else about the experiences and status of LGBTQ+ folks in the EA community based just on the fact they’re overrepresented in the EA community.
I haven’t put any thoughts into how this otherwise impacts the gender ratio of the EA community or dating prospects for individual community members therein. I just offer the info in case it inspires others’ insights about intra-community dating and relationships.