They often organize or attend events, meetups, or workshops that are focused on or friendly to polyamory, such as EA Polyamory, Poly Speed Dating, or Rationalist Polyamory. They also often join or contribute to online groups, forums, or platforms that are focused on or friendly to polyamory, such as Polyamory EA, Polyamory LessWrong, or Polyamory Rationality.
Of the six events/groups/etc listed here, the only one that seems to actually exist is “Poly Speed Dating”, which has several events/groups/etc bearing the same name in multiple places. That also happens to be the only one unrelated to the EA/rationality communities.
I suspect this was written using a modern LLM, given the structure, verbosity, and apparent hallucinations of non-existent groups.
I’m going to write the mods and ask them to consider whether the original post should be deleted. That is not based on the message the author intends to convey, but the evidence that this post is (at best) minimally edited, undisclosed LLM content (where the point of the post is not about LLMs). While I am usually anti-deletion, I don’t think we want to be overrun by LLM content. If I want to know what ChatGPT “thinks” about polyamory in EA, I can ask it.
I disagree a lot with the empirical claims here (as a former Classics student I have some news for you about how “strictly monogamous” ancient Greece and Rome were, for example), but I think that’s not even the crux for me—the crux is that we don’t have a moral responsibility to choose who to date or not date based on the vague effects on social norms. To put it in more EA-ish terms, even assuming your claims are right, the marginal effect on my society’s creativity, productivity… etc that is caused by me being poly, is surely extremely negligible, whereas the cost to me of not being poly is very big (particularly since I already have two partners). So the main reason I disagree with posts like this is that they just make unreasonable demands of people.
Of the six events/groups/etc listed here, the only one that seems to actually exist is “Poly Speed Dating”, which has several events/groups/etc bearing the same name in multiple places. That also happens to be the only one unrelated to the EA/rationality communities.
I suspect this was written using a modern LLM, given the structure, verbosity, and apparent hallucinations of non-existent groups.
I’m going to write the mods and ask them to consider whether the original post should be deleted. That is not based on the message the author intends to convey, but the evidence that this post is (at best) minimally edited, undisclosed LLM content (where the point of the post is not about LLMs). While I am usually anti-deletion, I don’t think we want to be overrun by LLM content. If I want to know what ChatGPT “thinks” about polyamory in EA, I can ask it.
Yeah my mistake, moving to drafts
I disagree a lot with the empirical claims here (as a former Classics student I have some news for you about how “strictly monogamous” ancient Greece and Rome were, for example), but I think that’s not even the crux for me—the crux is that we don’t have a moral responsibility to choose who to date or not date based on the vague effects on social norms. To put it in more EA-ish terms, even assuming your claims are right, the marginal effect on my society’s creativity, productivity… etc that is caused by me being poly, is surely extremely negligible, whereas the cost to me of not being poly is very big (particularly since I already have two partners). So the main reason I disagree with posts like this is that they just make unreasonable demands of people.
I upvoted because I thought the argument was coherent, as in, it had a logical structure, even though I don’t buy it.