I’m a monogamous man with very little connection to any in-person EA community—I attended EAGxBoston last year, had a great time, and that’s it. So hearing these anecdotes about the in-person scene is quite disturbing to me.
I have no beef with polyamory. I’m a big fan of EA. And I utterly disagree with your characterization of EA as “altruism stripped of empathy and morality.”
But what you are describing is an incredibly toxic power dynamic. It does sound predatory. Mixing institutional authority, money, drugs, and sex sounds like a recipe for disaster. We’ve already had this sh*t going on at the Monastic Academy. If it’s pervasive in the EA and LW communities more broadly, then that’s terrible for the people on whom this unwanted attention is inflicted. An absolute scandal factory. I’m quite prepared to believe it’s going on.
Add this to the list of things an EA risk management and whistleblowing organization needs to focus on.
I’m a monogamous man with very little connection to any in-person EA community—I attended EAGxBoston last year, had a great time, and that’s it. So hearing these anecdotes about the in-person scene is quite disturbing to me.
I have no beef with polyamory. I’m a big fan of EA. And I utterly disagree with your characterization of EA as “altruism stripped of empathy and morality.”
But what you are describing is an incredibly toxic power dynamic. It does sound predatory. Mixing institutional authority, money, drugs, and sex sounds like a recipe for disaster. We’ve already had this sh*t going on at the Monastic Academy. If it’s pervasive in the EA and LW communities more broadly, then that’s terrible for the people on whom this unwanted attention is inflicted. An absolute scandal factory. I’m quite prepared to believe it’s going on.
Add this to the list of things an EA risk management and whistleblowing organization needs to focus on.