Fair enough! I think this discussion is being harmed by ambiguity about the behaviors we’re talking about (this is my fault; my posts have been unclear). I don’t think I’d classify “helping new hires find housing” as violating “standard/reasonable professional norms.”
I’m mainly thinking about the kinds of behaviors EAs engage in that are described in the above post (and my general heuristics about the kinds of practices that are normalized in the EA community). I do think that if you’re asking yourself something like “Should I live with my employee who has less power than me?” or “Should I use drugs with these colleagues?” it is better to err on the side of not doing this kind of stuff, at least at first. If after a year of working with people, you all decide to start smoking weed together, that strikes me as probably pretty innocuous (versus if you had established this kind of culture at the outset).
Fair enough! I think this discussion is being harmed by ambiguity about the behaviors we’re talking about (this is my fault; my posts have been unclear). I don’t think I’d classify “helping new hires find housing” as violating “standard/reasonable professional norms.”
I’m mainly thinking about the kinds of behaviors EAs engage in that are described in the above post (and my general heuristics about the kinds of practices that are normalized in the EA community). I do think that if you’re asking yourself something like “Should I live with my employee who has less power than me?” or “Should I use drugs with these colleagues?” it is better to err on the side of not doing this kind of stuff, at least at first. If after a year of working with people, you all decide to start smoking weed together, that strikes me as probably pretty innocuous (versus if you had established this kind of culture at the outset).