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I was SA'd by Rationalists, AMA.
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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Anna Salamon confessed to hiding information from subordinates at CFAR before COVID to control them, and Duncan Sabien complained about a former employer (probably CFAR) making promises to keep him onboard then secretly breaking them. One thing that pisses me off about this space that there is the refusal to learn and change after people got hurt. I don't know what happened between Yudkowsky and his live-in protégé, or him and Jeffrey Epstein, but someone with those experiences should not be talking about sexual misconduct and abuse of power like he talks about it in 2026.
ty, I've heard her name here and there but didn't look too deeply into a lot of CFAR internals.
My master theory has become that there are really two groups of people, impressionable children in adult bodies, and a lot of people who have become post-economic via something else (startup exits, sex work, poker championships) and that gets used as social proof when it comes to convincing people they know what they're doing in other areas.
That is why it is important hearing from people who have been in these spaces, because my impression was that the leading writers and organizers rely on wage or freelance income, often funded by grants and donations but sometimes by venture capital like when Substack gives bonuses to Scott Alexander. Many of them have jobs they love which pay USD $100k-600k/yr but I thought that below the very-rich (Thiel, Tallinn, McClabe) only Curtis Yarvin was both living off capital and someone anyone outside the scene has heard of. However, I don't want to lead this conversation away from your experiences of sexual assault and poor responses by rationalists.
I think it's an important thing to be generally aware of; MIRI pays Yud ~600k/yr as chair of the board, emergent ventures gives out a lot of grants to adjacent ppl, etc
There's a lot of in-network stuff that happens too ie chaosprime was in a position to give vibecamp 18K, so I think the money part is important as it might allow some of the worst ppl to buy their way out of trouble