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Rationalist posts detailed catalogue of confirmed bad behaviour by EA/rationalist org Nonlinear. Second rationalist goes meta on first post: how can we even know anything, it's so unfair to Nonlinear (awful.systems)
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  • original post detailing mistreatment of employees
  • meta post about how a good rationalist should correctly epistemically assess the fairness of the post cataloguing and confirming the bad behaviour

tl;dr these fucking guys

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

One of the guys from the popular (2.3M subs) yt channel computerphile (not about AI just computer stuff and they have a lot of different people giving talks), is also an advisor. Which would be a good example for people going 'why are yall so worried about these nerds, nobody listens to them'. (Not going to namedrop as I have no idea how involved and connected he is to all this (and I'm not going to do some sort of creepy deep dive)).

[-] hrrrngh@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Not going to namedrop as I have no idea how involved and connected he is to all this

I totally will ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Robert Miles was my first heartbreaker. He seems like a great educator; I just like listening to him explaining things and talking about computer science. But damn it came as a shock to see he's the narrator of a Rationalism for Kids cartoon series and is neck-deep in EA.

[-] selfconsciouscapybaras@c.im 5 points 1 year ago

@hrrrngh @Soyweiser oh man, I was hoping so hard it wouldn't be him, but he was the first from computerphile to come to mind...

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