@trashawaythrow.bsky.social: "This is horrifying but not an EA space? Most EAs are not rationalists (nor longtermists), most rationalists are not EAs, and the owner of Lighthaven, specifically, hates EA. There’s a Venn diagram of overlap between these groups but that overlap doesn’t seem enough to justify treating this as EA?" / Blueviewer

@trashawaythrow.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:31:34.039Z

This is horrifying but not an EA space? Most EAs are not rationalists (nor longtermists), most rationalists are not EAs, and the owner of Lighthaven, specifically, hates EA. There’s a Venn diagram of overlap between these groups but that overlap doesn’t seem enough to justify treating this as EA?

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com·2026-09-27T18:33:37.922Z #

the Venn diagram is basically a circle time.com/6252617/effe...

@trashawaythrow.bsky.social·2026-09-27T19:15:17.125Z #

I read that article at the time and agree that is bad. And EA has had issues with sexual harrsssment and abuse. But beside the demographic lack of overlap a big difference between EA and rationalists is EA kicks the abusers out. Literally people get banned from the forum and from coming to events.

@trashawaythrow.bsky.social·2026-09-27T19:17:26.941Z #

I look at this like the Dem party. Across several thousand people without unified control, some people (in power or not) will be really shitty. But the Dems usually (not always) kick out the bad guys. While this is not true of the GOP. EA should do better, but that doesn’t make them the rationalists