* If you actually read the email, it doesn't look like Brennan made any promises—Scott confessed, and threatened. I don't think Scott did anything wrong—_because_ I don't think belief in hereditarianism is wrong. If you imagine someone confessing to a real crime and then threatening "Don't tell anyone this", we would regard the leaker as a valiant whistleblower, not a privacy breaker
* Yudkowsky reopens the conversation?! Why?!
-https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228
+https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228 my comment at 10:37 a.m.
https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1362514650089156608
> Hypothesis: People to whom self-awareness and introspection come naturally, put way too much moral exculpatory weight on "But what if they don't know they're lying?" They don't know a lot of their internals! And don't want to know! That's just how they roll.