[note: I do not consider myself part of EA, I don’t follow the forum, I do have friends in the Bay Area, but they’re mostly in the less-zany parts of tech. This is outside view. ]
I have a few reactions to this question.
Even if there’s correlation, the causality may be reversed. Workplaces and social groups that go out of their way to blur work and personal life might be more open/encouraging to poly relationships, rather than poly relationships making it easier to blur the lines.
What you describe is more retaliation than nepotism. This IMO is worse, though it’s on the same spectrum and fine for exploration of mechanisms. In any case, the more subtle “choosing to be separate from the group’s personal life, and therefore excluded from important decisions” is IMO the primary risk of family-like organizations, whether poly or just socially-connected traditional relationships.
I think my primary modeling difference from this question is that I think polyamory is just an added weirdness to the “contrarian cluster” that is bay-area-style community EA. It’s going to be cult-like and unpleasant because of the cluster, and the belief that THAT particular cluster is of world importance, regardless of whether poly is part of it or not.
[note: I do not consider myself part of EA, I don’t follow the forum, I do have friends in the Bay Area, but they’re mostly in the less-zany parts of tech. This is outside view. ]
I have a few reactions to this question.
Even if there’s correlation, the causality may be reversed. Workplaces and social groups that go out of their way to blur work and personal life might be more open/encouraging to poly relationships, rather than poly relationships making it easier to blur the lines.
What you describe is more retaliation than nepotism. This IMO is worse, though it’s on the same spectrum and fine for exploration of mechanisms. In any case, the more subtle “choosing to be separate from the group’s personal life, and therefore excluded from important decisions” is IMO the primary risk of family-like organizations, whether poly or just socially-connected traditional relationships.
I think my primary modeling difference from this question is that I think polyamory is just an added weirdness to the “contrarian cluster” that is bay-area-style community EA. It’s going to be cult-like and unpleasant because of the cluster, and the belief that THAT particular cluster is of world importance, regardless of whether poly is part of it or not.