Then there is the strong belief in the Bay Area that excluding anyone is wrong; also various people who have various problems and have been in the past excluded from places would be triggered by the idea of excluding people from the rationality community.
I just want to say that, while it has in the past been the case that a lot of people were very anti-exclusion, and some people are still that way, I certainly am not and this does not accurately describe Lightcone, and regularly we are involved in excluding or banning people for bad behavior. Most major events we are involved in running of a certain size have involved some amount of this.
I think this is healthy and necessary and the attempt to include everyone or always make sure that whatever stray cat shows up on your doorstep can live in your home, is very unhealthy and led to a lot of past problems and hurtful dynamics.
(There’s lots more details to this and how to do justice well that I’m skipping over, right now I’m just replying to this narrow point.)
I just want to say that, while it has in the past been the case that a lot of people were very anti-exclusion, and some people are still that way, I certainly am not and this does not accurately describe Lightcone, and regularly we are involved in excluding or banning people for bad behavior. Most major events we are involved in running of a certain size have involved some amount of this.
I think this is healthy and necessary and the attempt to include everyone or always make sure that whatever stray cat shows up on your doorstep can live in your home, is very unhealthy and led to a lot of past problems and hurtful dynamics.
(There’s lots more details to this and how to do justice well that I’m skipping over, right now I’m just replying to this narrow point.)