Hello! This is my pseudonymous account... Why?
1) I'm serious considering a public-facing career, and am worried about something random I write on here coming back and biting me.
2) Two facts: I know a lot of people in EA. I care too much about other people's opinions of me.
2a) I'm not a confident writer. I want to feel more confident about my writing before I let people knowingly read it.
2b) I've noticed cleverness-related imposter syndrome make hesitate to voice disagreement with conventional EA ideas. At the same time, another part of me thinks my ideas might have value and self-censorship can be really dangerous. Using a pseudonymous account makes me feel more free to say countercultural things.
Finally, I love and support the EA movement! I remember when I was new, and I went on a walk with two EAs for the first time in person. I wanted to enthuse about EA but they mainly moaned about it. This made small Marzhin feel a little disappointed, and I don't want that to happen to other people. Because this is my anonymous account it's a little criticism-focused, but I want to make clear that the movement has my support overall :D
Would someone from CEA be able to comment on this incident?
'A third described an unsettling experience with an influential figure in EA whose role included picking out promising students and funneling them towards highly coveted jobs. After that leader arranged for her to be flown to the U.K. for a job interview, she recalls being surprised to discover that she was expected to stay in his home, not a hotel. When she arrived, she says, “he told me he needed to masturbate before seeing me.”'
Was this 'influential figure in EA' reported to Community Health, and if so, what were the consequences?
[Caveat: Assuming this is an influential EA, not a figure who has influence in EA but wouldn't see themselves as part of the community.]
Thanks for sharing this! As someone who identifies as an EA, I feel that it's important to be familiar with a wide range of problems in the world, and this alerted me to a new one (and some amazing news!).
Brother is used as a term of affection in a fair few languages (including Swedish), so I wouldn't just trust a tweet.
The Swedish wikipedia article on Per, however, confirms more definitively that they are brothers: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Shapiro