In terms of what happened that day, the article covers it about as well as I could. There’s also a report from the sheriff’s office which goes into a bit more detail about some parts.
For context, all four of the main people involved live in the Bay Area and interact with the rationality community. Three of them had been to a CFAR workshop. Two of them are close to each other, and CFAR had banned them prior to the reunion based on a bunch of concerning things they’ve done. The other two I’m not sure how they got involved.
They have made a bunch of complaints about CFAR and other parts of the community (the bulk of which are false or hard to follow), and it seems like they were trying to create a big dramatic event to attract attention. I’m not sure quite how they expected it to go.
This doesn’t seem like the right venue to go into details to try to sort out the concerns about them or the complaints they’ve raised; there are some people looking into each of those things.
This is probably the least important question (the answer is that some people are nuts) but also the one that I most want to see answered for some reason.
Information about people behaving erratically/violently is better at grabbing your brain’s “important” sensor? (Noting that I had exactly the same instinctual reaction). This seems to be roughly what you’d expect from naive evopsych (which doesn’t mean it’s a good explanation, of course)
I’d guess there weren’t as many nutcases in the average ancestral climate, as there are in modern news/rumor mills. We underestimate how often it’s going to turn out that there wasn’t really a reason they did those things.
Hello,
Could you shed some light on this recent incident (mirror) involving CFAR? I am sure I am not the only one who is confused.
Best regards.
(This is Dan from CFAR)
In terms of what happened that day, the article covers it about as well as I could. There’s also a report from the sheriff’s office which goes into a bit more detail about some parts.
For context, all four of the main people involved live in the Bay Area and interact with the rationality community. Three of them had been to a CFAR workshop. Two of them are close to each other, and CFAR had banned them prior to the reunion based on a bunch of concerning things they’ve done. The other two I’m not sure how they got involved.
They have made a bunch of complaints about CFAR and other parts of the community (the bulk of which are false or hard to follow), and it seems like they were trying to create a big dramatic event to attract attention. I’m not sure quite how they expected it to go.
This doesn’t seem like the right venue to go into details to try to sort out the concerns about them or the complaints they’ve raised; there are some people looking into each of those things.
This is probably the least important question (the answer is that some people are nuts) but also the one that I most want to see answered for some reason.
Information about people behaving erratically/violently is better at grabbing your brain’s “important” sensor? (Noting that I had exactly the same instinctual reaction). This seems to be roughly what you’d expect from naive evopsych (which doesn’t mean it’s a good explanation, of course)
I’d guess there weren’t as many nutcases in the average ancestral climate, as there are in modern news/rumor mills. We underestimate how often it’s going to turn out that there wasn’t really a reason they did those things.