>”Having loyal and pliable lieutenants is common for powerful, ambitious people”
And therefore it’s okay for those powerful, ambitious people to curry sexual favour in the workplace, create an environment where women feel pressured to have sex to protect or further their career, and where sexual intrigue, pursuit and—potentially—abuse becomes normal?
Because when male authority figures sleep with female colleagues, it introduces all of those dynamics into the workplace, regardless of whether it did or didn’t advance the careers of the women they slept with.
I’m saying that it’s unclear how the collapse of FTX, the role of the poly relationships, predatory male sexual behavior, or the culpability of EA culture are linked, despite being welded together into one set of claims in this post. Also, it seems like Caroline E probably had a lot of agency and power (but I’m happy to learn otherwise).
The underlying issue that is motivating this is that there’s many issues and throwing this into this high temperature environment will burn them.
I have a lot of anecdotes that could be useful. To the degree it’s actually true (and writing here is useful; and completely ignoring the values/interests of EA) I’m with you and the OP in stopping this abuse, some aspects of which seems plausible and real to me.
I won’t participate if it turns into a very low quality overreaction or leads to something that consumes a lot of time in EA and doesn’t help women.
Well, FTX was filled with EA staff, and FTX’s inner circle was nepotistic and incestous. Nepotistic and incestuous workplaces are bad, and the OP is saying that she has experienced much the same in dealing with EA. I don’t really see what’s complicated about that?
How is this your priority in responding to this long list of personal experiences, which have no doubt distressed the OP, and pose enormous questions for the movement?
This community’s lack of basic decency and kindness—sacrificed to a sterile and callous ideal of rationality—is one of the many reasons why I disassociated from it a long time ago.
What exactly are you trying to say?
>”Having loyal and pliable lieutenants is common for powerful, ambitious people”
And therefore it’s okay for those powerful, ambitious people to curry sexual favour in the workplace, create an environment where women feel pressured to have sex to protect or further their career, and where sexual intrigue, pursuit and—potentially—abuse becomes normal?
Because when male authority figures sleep with female colleagues, it introduces all of those dynamics into the workplace, regardless of whether it did or didn’t advance the careers of the women they slept with.
I’m saying that it’s unclear how the collapse of FTX, the role of the poly relationships, predatory male sexual behavior, or the culpability of EA culture are linked, despite being welded together into one set of claims in this post. Also, it seems like Caroline E probably had a lot of agency and power (but I’m happy to learn otherwise).
The underlying issue that is motivating this is that there’s many issues and throwing this into this high temperature environment will burn them.
I have a lot of anecdotes that could be useful. To the degree it’s actually true (and writing here is useful; and completely ignoring the values/interests of EA) I’m with you and the OP in stopping this abuse, some aspects of which seems plausible and real to me.
I won’t participate if it turns into a very low quality overreaction or leads to something that consumes a lot of time in EA and doesn’t help women.
Well, FTX was filled with EA staff, and FTX’s inner circle was nepotistic and incestous. Nepotistic and incestuous workplaces are bad, and the OP is saying that she has experienced much the same in dealing with EA. I don’t really see what’s complicated about that?
How is this your priority in responding to this long list of personal experiences, which have no doubt distressed the OP, and pose enormous questions for the movement?
This community’s lack of basic decency and kindness—sacrificed to a sterile and callous ideal of rationality—is one of the many reasons why I disassociated from it a long time ago.
I don’t think you will be successful like this, I’m sorry.