The minimization and denial among these comments is horrifying.
I am a female AI researcher. I come onto this forum for Neel Nanda's interpretability research which has recently been fire. I've experienced abuse in these communities which makes the reaction here all the more painful.
I don't want to come onto this forum anymore.
This is how women get driven out of AI.
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Damning allegations; but I expect this forum to respond with minimization and denial.
A few quotes:
... (read 1822 more words →)At the same time, she started to pick up weird vibes. One rationalist man introduced her to another as “perfect ratbait”—rat as in rationalist. She heard stories of sexual misconduct involving male leaders in the scene, but when she asked around, her peers waved the allegations off as minor character flaws unimportant when measured against the threat of an AI apocalypse. Eventually, she began dating an AI researcher in the community. She alleges that he committed sexual misconduct against her, and she filed a report with the San Francisco police. (Like many women in her position,
While many of these claims are "old news" to those communities, many of these claims are fresh. The baseline rate reasoning is flawed because a) sexual assault remains the most underreported crime, so there is likely instead an iceberg effect, and b) women who were harassed/assaulted have left the movement which changes your distribution, and c) women who would enter your movement otherwise now stay away due to whisper networks and bad vibes.