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Effective Altruists: look, we tried to invite nice people as well as the huge racists we knew were huge racists when we invited them. What? Exclude the racists? But they're so interesting! (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Here's the "what did you like least" survey entries the organizers say they classified as "edgy people":

column 1 Worst thing categories, column 2, What did you enjoy least about Manifest? row 1, col 1, edgy people, col 2, All the racism stuff, row 2 col 1, gender ratio/demographics, edgy people, col 2, way too much eugenics, gender ratio sufficiently uneven that it was a bit uncomfortable, row 3 col 1, people, gender ratio/demographics, edgy people, col 2, Also meeting people.... as a woman I have never felt as ignored and disrespected as I have in some instances the...

"all the racism stuff" = "edgy people". Yup.

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

Where is this from? Sorry if I missed the link in the big watermuddying wall of text.

[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago
[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago

Bio people here are poorly informed. Just in general some of the presentations are factually incorrect

B-but rationalists are experts at covalent bonds

Also meeting people.... as a woman I have never felt as ignored and disrespected as I have in some instances the pa...

I'm sure the feedback becomes more positive in the cut-off part, no doubt about it

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 months ago

i'm gonna rewrite and expand on that rambling comment someday

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