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I read through this person’s post and the related, recent presentation which was rejected. I don’t understand why they’re bringing up this topic in hacker circles, in particular. Do they have evidence that these traits are more prevalent in hacker circles? Why this community in particular? Are they also trying to give similar presentations at JP Morgan or something similar?

I don’t disagree with their overall goal of bringing awareness to this issue, but I think they need to focus more on the behavioral science and how it impacts society at large. Trying to insert oneself into places with topics that seem “out of place” seems to indicate that perhaps you’re saying that that organization has an issue.

One more thing to note, people who come in with ideas of “empathy” or “altruism” in unrelated spaces may perhaps be trying to build a following, or recruit others to a cause.

I am not saying this presenter has a cause for which they’re looking for particular personality types, but that’s exactly how cult leaders build a following.

Cult leaders often seek out people sensitive to traumatic events or who’ve been traumatized themselves. Once cult leaders have some recruits, further recruitment is left to the initial people who joined.