I was wondering when somebody would bring that up. I was reminded of it when people were saying ‘Scott isn’t a rape apologist’(*). A wizard psychologist should know better.

Just as a hypochondriac can get sick, just so can a delusional person be raped/assaulted. (iirc the latter is more likely, as abusers seem to love an easy target over whom they can put a lot of power, or if it is easy to get away with it). And people in relevant fields should know this. (E: btw, when I talked to people in the medical field in the past, they have told me that the first thing is a thing they try to keep in mind).

E: Btw, small note on this, iirc (I don’t know anybody involved irl, it was brought up when the suicide happend) Kathy here explicity mentioned that she still was pro EA and hoped this wouldn’t destroy the EA community, she devoted her life to altruism and was very much pro altruistic movements, and just wanted the abusers out. So treat this whole story with that in mind, and have some respect. She prob would have been pretty hurt to see this pop up on sneerclub. (And that is also why I try to not bring it up myself).

Of course, sadly this isn’t the only case of sexual abuse in the community (some of which Scott took action against (or had people take action against) like people being banned from going to Rationalist gatherings). But take heed that if you spreading any stories around that you are likely to hurt people who were hurt again. Behave.

If I recall correctly this was my breaking point when I originally was on the subreddit - seeing someone mocking her and getting broad support for it. It’s so, so fucked up.

“I realize that attacking someone based on things they disclosed in a suicide note makes me garbage”

It does!

Something something ethics board.

Holy shit that’s evil.

Wow, so empathetic towards the perpetrators of abuse and not the victims, who got their solace in the club he considers second only to feminists in its evil.

Is that right? But he’s got so many defenders.

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