Researcher frames ideology as mission creep amid EA community sex controversy
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-25
Rex Douglass offers a framework for the EA community controversy: ideologies function as mission creep—once concrete interpersonal transactions are replaced by vague normative identity, organizations inevitably slide into predation over votes, money, social networks, and eventually sex. Quoted dcolascione adds that the striking pattern is communities using sex as a vehicle for recruitment and ideological enforcement, citing the 16th-century Münster rebellion of the Anabaptists as a centuries-earlier precedent.
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