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 - eviltoast
  • 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

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      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.systemsEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

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

        I totally will 😎

        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.