Kirsten, how many incidents of harassment would need to be reported to warrant your worry? How many is too many that it is no longer worth risking your safety?
women reading this post shouldn’t feel worried to attend an EA event; lots of women in EA haven’t had these same experiences
You’re defeating the point of my post. Women need to be on the look out when engaging with EA if they don’t want to be exploited, at least in SF and NYC. Among them:
Not be drinking or using psychedelics without a trusted girlfriend to look after you and make sure you get home ok
Avoiding putting yourself in a position of dependence on a bad male actor
Cutting off friendships with bad male actors, and letting your girlfriends in EA know what’s up
For a community that is so alarmist for 5 or 1 or 0.1 percentage of X-risk from AI, giving a wide berth for sexual harassment is utterly hypocritical. Kathleen Forth’s suicide is not enough. The anonymous reports I linked is not enough. My own narration is not enough. You can make an evaluation of your own safety and risk tolerance ( assuming your gender here based on your post but feel free to correct me), but please let other women decide for themselves how much risk is acceptable and what dynamic is worth engaging with.
I feel a little conflicted, because on the one hand I want to respect and make space for you reporting your own experience. On the other hand, you are actually making concrete suggestions that I don’t agree with—suggestions that would make my life, as a woman in EA, worse. So I don’t know how to respond.
For context about me, I do know of several instances of sexual harassment in EA, some of which were handled better than others. I also know of instances of sexual harassment at my former university, and my former church, and my workplace.
Kirsten, how many incidents of harassment would need to be reported to warrant your worry? How many is too many that it is no longer worth risking your safety?
You’re defeating the point of my post. Women need to be on the look out when engaging with EA if they don’t want to be exploited, at least in SF and NYC. Among them:
Not be drinking or using psychedelics without a trusted girlfriend to look after you and make sure you get home ok
Avoiding putting yourself in a position of dependence on a bad male actor
Cutting off friendships with bad male actors, and letting your girlfriends in EA know what’s up
For a community that is so alarmist for 5 or 1 or 0.1 percentage of X-risk from AI, giving a wide berth for sexual harassment is utterly hypocritical. Kathleen Forth’s suicide is not enough. The anonymous reports I linked is not enough. My own narration is not enough. You can make an evaluation of your own safety and risk tolerance ( assuming your gender here based on your post but feel free to correct me), but please let other women decide for themselves how much risk is acceptable and what dynamic is worth engaging with.
I feel a little conflicted, because on the one hand I want to respect and make space for you reporting your own experience. On the other hand, you are actually making concrete suggestions that I don’t agree with—suggestions that would make my life, as a woman in EA, worse. So I don’t know how to respond.
For context about me, I do know of several instances of sexual harassment in EA, some of which were handled better than others. I also know of instances of sexual harassment at my former university, and my former church, and my workplace.