Ex-OpenAI engineer Su Chenzang calls EA circles toxic, echoing dating whisper networks
suchenzang · x · 2026-09-16
Former OpenAI engineer Su Chenzang blasted the effective altruism (EA) community: she says women's whisper networks warn each other never to date an EA, describing some as toxic people who hide it behind "a fortress of their own skewed rationality" — clever enough to rationalize anything, including evil.
She adds that EA affiliates regularly crawl into her replies with toxic garbage to defend their own, and she blocks them all. She acknowledges good people exist in the mix, but "harboring the psychopaths makes the entire brand smell quite bad." Another notable moment in AI community drama around EA culture.
More from Fun
- Researchers clash over Sakana AI's bioplausible learning claim: MNIST results don't count — aran_nayebi · 2026-09-16
- NeurIPS reference checker flags LLM-corrupted bib entries; desk rejection feared — suryanreddy · 2026-09-16
- Creator recreates viral volcano popcorn meme entirely with flovaai — SimplyAnnisa · 2026-09-16
- Jev, an AI model for fast low-cost decisions, goes viral playing Doom — kimmonismus · 2026-09-16
- Dev ships browser-playable party game CANTEEN CRASHERS using GPT 6 Astra + Blender — gabrielchua · 2026-09-16
- After flybrain sim called 'just animations', researcher plans a verifiable simulation — TinfoilTricorn · 2026-09-16