The Effective Altruism Kids Aren’t Alright

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Ivy Astrix says Rationalist and Effective Altruist communities leave sexual-violence response to leaders who act like children. She recounts assaults at Vibecamp, ostracization after speaking, and a safety process she calls a massive failure, and ties Slutcon and Red Means No (a negotiated non-consent event) to the same entitlement. She urges readers to leave when the culture feels bad and weird.

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• Astrix’s thesis is that children are running TESCREAL safety. TESCREAL here mainly means Rationalists and Effective Altruists; she says adult duties of keeping people safe keep exceeding their leadership.
• She reports assaults at Vibecamp and a broken response. After saying so at Vibecamp 2 decompression, she describes consent-ignoring gossip to Aella, tweets about “outsourcing their agency,” and more than two years of silence from organizers.
• Ostracization followed disclosure. She reads Eneasz Brodski’s *Trauma Junkie* essay as arguing that trauma survivors with PTSD should be kept out for community health, and she treats that as treating victims like the people who harmed them.
• She contrasts paid experts with learning on victims. Running a music festival, her team hired experts rather than practicing on survivors; she says Vibecamp’s safety work massively failed that standard.
• Slutcon and Red Means No sit in the same culture. She calls Red Means No, the consensual non-consent event run with AI-safety figures, a long-building rape-culture outgrowth that emboldens equating victims with rapists.

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