Post #4902840 · Elektrine

2026-09-30 21:17 UTC

‘uncovered downside risk’ is an interesting way to euphemise rape, and because it’s an EA I can’t even tell if it’s supposed to be tongue in cheek. EA/rationalism and redpill fit like yin and yang. Akin to how EA is an optimization of altruism with “suboptimal” human tendencies like morality and empathy stripped from it, red pill is an optimized sexual strategy with the humanity of women stripped from it. Really well said. Despite this culture, EA as a philosophy has a lot of good in it and they should fix this bug with some introspection sigh

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@istewart@awful.systems 2026-10-01 15:56

uncovered downside risk This really is a cute bit of euphemism that deserves a bit more attention. Surely, it’s not problematic to apply finance jargon to human relationships! Let me just pop open Robinhood and cover my downside risk by buying a few put contracts on sexual assault. Despite this culture, EA as a philosophy has a lot of good in it OK, Ms. Gopalakrishnan, here’s an alternative perspective: EA is the application of affluent Anglo-American technocrats’ consumerism to charitable giving and virtue signaling. The “rational” aspect of EA is applying the same sort of stat-sheet logic to charity that the moneyed EAs use to shop for sports cars. SImilarly, the sexual attitudes we’re disputing here are extensions of that same consumerism! They are treating womens’ bodies and lives as consumer goods to be exploited and discarded. EA does not empower the less fortunate it claims to help, EA men will not ever empower or hold safe the women they objectify. These attitudes are one and the same.

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