I think the healthy and compassionate response to this article would be to focus on addressing the harms victims have experienced. So I find myself disappointed by much of the voting and comment responses here.
I agree that the Bloomberg article doesn’t acknowledge that most of the harms that they list have been perpetrated by people who have already mostly been kicked out of the community, and uses some unfair framings. But I think the bigger issue is that of harms experienced by women that may not have been addressed: that of unreported cases, and of insufficient measures taken against reported ones. I don’t know if enough has been done, so it seems unwise to minimize the article and people who are upset about the sexual misconduct. And even if enough has been done in terms of responses and policy, I would prefer seeing more compassion.
I think some empathy and sympathy is warranted to the users of the site that had nothing to do with any of the alleged harms!
It is pretty tiresome to be accused-by-association. I’m not aware of any significant problems with abuse “in LessWrong”. And, from what I can tell, almost all of the alleged abuse happened in one particular ‘rationalist community’, not all, most, or even many of them.
I’m extremely skeptical that the article or this post were inspired by compassion towards anyone.
I think the healthy and compassionate response to this article would be to focus on addressing the harms victims have experienced. So I find myself disappointed by much of the voting and comment responses here.
I agree that the Bloomberg article doesn’t acknowledge that most of the harms that they list have been perpetrated by people who have already mostly been kicked out of the community, and uses some unfair framings. But I think the bigger issue is that of harms experienced by women that may not have been addressed: that of unreported cases, and of insufficient measures taken against reported ones. I don’t know if enough has been done, so it seems unwise to minimize the article and people who are upset about the sexual misconduct. And even if enough has been done in terms of responses and policy, I would prefer seeing more compassion.
I think some empathy and sympathy is warranted to the users of the site that had nothing to do with any of the alleged harms!
It is pretty tiresome to be accused-by-association. I’m not aware of any significant problems with abuse “in LessWrong”. And, from what I can tell, almost all of the alleged abuse happened in one particular ‘rationalist community’, not all, most, or even many of them.
I’m extremely skeptical that the article or this post were inspired by compassion towards anyone.