EA - Democratising risk: a community misled by Throwaway151

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Democratising risk: a community misled, published by Throwaway151 on September 13, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. In their post on 'Democratising Risk', Zoe Cremer and Luke Kemp argued that they faced threats of censorship and defunding if they published their critique of EA. Cremer has subsequently spoken to journalists about this ordeal. However, they did not disclose that Emile P. Torres (formerly Phil) was a co-author on the article, as Torres recently disclosed on Twitter. At this point, Torres had been banned from the EA Forum, they had called many people in the community white supremacists, racists, eugenicists and genocidal, and many people in the community had accused them of harassment. It was extremely deceptive of Cremer and Kemp not to disclose this information, because this, rather than the content of what they wrote, may have contributed to the (alleged) reception to their article. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.