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Amongst this miasma, the girls spend their summer engaged in two projects.
Project #1 is to extract Emma from the apartment she shares w/ Alice Monday— whose bull- & batshit opinions we last spotted all the way back in pt. 3. Alice, we are sadly unsurprised to say, has been abusing their housemates; & has, in particular, been beating Emma w/ a bamboo rod “for the sake of blood”. They have also been abusive to Somni.
Project #2 is to prepare a talk for the annual CFAR alumni reunion— one of the Rationalists’ largest annual gatherings. Gwen envisions this talk as her “best chance of communicating the base information, our models, how to perceive deep aspects of their own and others’ psychologies and ethics, and how to escape traps like the Bay area housing market.” Ziz & 3 unspecified others “who knew about MIRICFAR’s inversion” have agreed to “speak their ideas” alongside her.
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A few days prior to the reunion, Anna bans Ziz & Gwen from CFAR venues.
Gwen describes this as a violation of CFAR’s whistleblower policy (CWP), but we, having read the link she helpfully provides to CWP, rather find Anna’s actions to be… in alignment w/ the policy.
CWP states that it is the responsibility of whistleblowers to blow their whistles thru the proper channels: first taking complaints to CFAR’s Executive Director, & then— should this fall on deaf ears— taking their complaints to the President of the Board. Light googling has revealed that, in 2019, CFAR’s Executive Director was Anna, & CFAR’s President of the Board was— alas & alack— Anna.
Gwen is a v. thoughtful girl, & perhaps she is referring to Ziz’s disastrous heart-to-heart w/ Anna abt Anna (covered in pt. 14). If this is the case, then indeed Ziz did attempt to blow the whistle on Anna to Anna in Anna’s capacity as both Executive Director & President of the Board… in which case Gwen is right, the policy was followed, & it is CFAR that is in the wrong.
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