That article had me horrified. But I was hoping the reactions would point to empathy and a commitment to concrete improvement.
The opposite happened, the defensive and at times dismissive or demanding comments made it worse. It was the responses here and on the effective altruism forum that had me reassess EA related groups as likely unsafe to work for.
This sounds like a systematic problem related to the way this community is structured, and the community response seems aimed not at fixing the problem, but at justifying why it isn’t getting fixed, abusing rationality to frame abuse as normal and inevitable.
That article had me horrified. But I was hoping the reactions would point to empathy and a commitment to concrete improvement.
The opposite happened, the defensive and at times dismissive or demanding comments made it worse. It was the responses here and on the effective altruism forum that had me reassess EA related groups as likely unsafe to work for.
This sounds like a systematic problem related to the way this community is structured, and the community response seems aimed not at fixing the problem, but at justifying why it isn’t getting fixed, abusing rationality to frame abuse as normal and inevitable.