_ Sasha disaster
With internet available—
+_ dath ilan endorsers are paid strictly for their time
_ replies to Laura Vaughn's comment about Brent?
_ evil bullies reply
_ link FTX fiasco on "stealing their customers' money"
[13 November: #drama discussion today (https://discord.com/channels/401181628015050773/458419017602826260/1041586188961714259) makes me feel like I don't want to put a "Why I Don't Trust ..." post, like it would be too cruel]
+[no awareness that people like me or Michael or Jessica would consider this a betrayal coming from the author of the Sequences (even if it wouldn't be a betrayal coming from a generic public intellectual)]
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(If you weren't interested in meeting my standards for intellectual honest before, it's not clear why you would change your mind just because I spent 80,000 words cussing you out to everyone else.)
Michael, June 2019
> If clarity seems like death to them and like life to us, and we don't know this, IMHO that's an unpromising basis for friendship
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+Piper and Yudkowsky on privacy norms—
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+https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1591996891734376449
+> if such promises were made, they should be kept, but in practice in the present day, they often aren't made, and if you haven't explicitly promised a source confidentiality and then learn of something deeply unethical from them you should absolutely whistleblow.
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+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1592002777429180416
+> I don't think I'd go for "haven't explicitly promised" here but rather "if you're pretty sure there was no such informal understanding on which basis you were granted that access and information".
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+The problem isn't just the smugness and condescension; it's the smugness and condescension when he's in the wrong and knows it; I don't want to be lumped in with
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+My obsession must look as pathetic from the outside as Scott Aaronson's—why doesn't he laugh it off, who cares what SneerClub thinks?—but in my case, the difference is that I was betrayed
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