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Rationalist posts detailed catalogue of confirmed bad behaviour by EA/rationalist org Nonlinear. Second rationalist goes meta on first post: how can we even know anything, it's so unfair to Nonlinear (awful.systems)
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  • original post detailing mistreatment of employees
  • meta post about how a good rationalist should correctly epistemically assess the fairness of the post cataloguing and confirming the bad behaviour

tl;dr these fucking guys

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

oh god there's another 400 comments here on the EA forum version. I particularly liked* the rationalists incorrecting each other from first principles on US defamation law.

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

The community manager saying they were aware of the situation (and presumably took no corrective action and kept it hush-hush) was damning. As is the post that's just like what about the reputational damage!?

Zero recognition of the fucked up power dynamics at play, and way too much 'well, nerds will be nerds.'

I seem to recall a very similar situation in EA, let me dig it up... ah yes, it was this entire Time article: https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/

Seems to line up pretty closely with what several other people say about several other "orgs."

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