Damning allegations; but I expect this forum to respond with minimization and denial.
This is so spectacularly bad faith that it makes me think the reason you posted this is pretty purely malicious.
Out of all of the LessWrong and ‘rationalist’ “communities” that have existed, how many are ones for which any of the alleged bad acts occurred? One? Two?
Out of all of the LessWrong users and ‘rationalists’, how many have been accused of these alleged bad acts? Mostly one or two?
My having observed extremely similar dynamics about, e.g. sexual harassment, in several different online and in-person ‘communities’, the ‘communities’ of or affiliated with ‘rationality’, LessWrong, and EA have been, far and away, the most diligent about actually effectively mitigating, preventing, and (reasonably) punishing bad behavior.
It is really unclear what standards the ‘communities’ are failing to meet and that makes me very suspicious that those standards are unreasonable.
This is so spectacularly bad faith that it makes me think the reason you posted this is pretty purely malicious.
Out of all of the LessWrong and ‘rationalist’ “communities” that have existed, how many are ones for which any of the alleged bad acts occurred? One? Two?
Out of all of the LessWrong users and ‘rationalists’, how many have been accused of these alleged bad acts? Mostly one or two?
My having observed extremely similar dynamics about, e.g. sexual harassment, in several different online and in-person ‘communities’, the ‘communities’ of or affiliated with ‘rationality’, LessWrong, and EA have been, far and away, the most diligent about actually effectively mitigating, preventing, and (reasonably) punishing bad behavior.
It is really unclear what standards the ‘communities’ are failing to meet and that makes me very suspicious that those standards are unreasonable.