Post #4902530 · Elektrine

2026-09-30 19:54 UTC

An Effective Altruist software developer who wrote about Bay Area EA’s culture of sexually aggressive men and misogyny explained that its hard to give informed consent when you are also being pushed to use alcohol and psychedelics. Most of us learned that when we were teenagers, but not these self-identified Big Brains (added to LessWrong’s Psychedelic Phase: Perigee). I do not know what to to other than pass on these stories and advise everyone I know to avoid any group connected to our friends. keerthanapg.com/random/ea-women/

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@blakestacey@awful.systems 2026-09-30 20:56

From experience it appears that, a ‘no’ once said is not enough for many men in EA. OK, that’s more than bad enough. Surely the next sentence will not escalaye— Having to keep replenishing that ‘no’ becomes annoying very fast What the absolute hell? A no is a no and should not need to be “replenished”.

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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-09-30 21:17

‘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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