EA community's habit of taking people at their word invites manipulation
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-08-27
Jacques Thibs criticizes the Effective Altruism community's habit of taking people at their word and publicly praising those with a long history of lying, just because they said the right sequence of words. He argues this good-faith signaling is naive behavior that makes the community easily manipulable.
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