Btw, since this is a call to participate in a PauseAI protest on my shortform, do your colleagues have plans to do anything about my ban from the PauseAI Discord server—like allowing me to contest it (as I was told there was a discussion of making a procedure for) or at least explaining it?
Because it’s lowkey insane!
For everyone else, who might not know: a year ago I, in context, on the PauseAI Discord server, explained my criticism of PauseAI’s dishonesty and, after being asked to, shared proofs that Holly publicly lied about our personal communications, including sharing screenshots of our messages; a large part of the thread was then deleted by the mods because they were against personal messages getting shared, without warning (I would’ve complied if asked by anyone representing a server to delete something!) or saving/allowing me to save any of the removed messages in the thread, including those clearly not related to the screenshots that you decided were violating the server norms; after a discussion of that, the issue seemed settled and I was asked to maybe run some workshops for PauseAI to improve PauseAI’s comms/proofreading/factchecking; and then, months later, I was banned despite not having interacted with the server at all.
When I reached out after noticing not being able to join the server, there was a surprising combination of being very friendly and excited to chat and scheduling a call and getting my takes on strategy, looking surprised to find out that I was somehow banned, then talking about having “protocols” for notifying of the ban which somehow didn’t work, and mentioning you were discussing creating a way to contest the ban and saying stuff about the importance of allowing the kind of criticism that I did; and at the same time, zero transparency around the actual reasons for the ban, how it happened, why I wasn’t notified, and then giving zero updates.
It’s hard to assume that the PauseAI leadership is following deontology.
Uhh yeah sorry that there hasn’t been a consistent approach. In our defence I believe yours in the only complex moderation case that PauseAI Global has ever had to deal with so far and we’ve kinda dropped the ball on figuring out how to handle it.
For context my take is that you’ve raised some valid points. And also you’ve acted poorly in some parts of this long running drama. And most importantly you’ve often acted in a way that seems almost optimised to turn people off. Especially for people not familiar with LessWrong culture, the inferential distance between you and many people is so vast that they really cannot understand you at all. Your behavior pattern matches to trolling / nuisance attention seeking in many ways and I often struggle to communicate to more normie types why I don’t think you’re insane or malicious.
I do sincerely hope to iron this out some time and put in place actual systems for dealing with similar disputes in the future. And I did read over the original post + Google doc a few months ago to try to form my own views more robustly. But this probably won’t be a priority for PauseAI Global in the immediate future. Sorry.
I directionally agree!
Btw, since this is a call to participate in a PauseAI protest on my shortform, do your colleagues have plans to do anything about my ban from the PauseAI Discord server—like allowing me to contest it (as I was told there was a discussion of making a procedure for) or at least explaining it?
Because it’s lowkey insane!
For everyone else, who might not know: a year ago I, in context, on the PauseAI Discord server, explained my criticism of PauseAI’s dishonesty and, after being asked to, shared proofs that Holly publicly lied about our personal communications, including sharing screenshots of our messages; a large part of the thread was then deleted by the mods because they were against personal messages getting shared, without warning (I would’ve complied if asked by anyone representing a server to delete something!) or saving/allowing me to save any of the removed messages in the thread, including those clearly not related to the screenshots that you decided were violating the server norms; after a discussion of that, the issue seemed settled and I was asked to maybe run some workshops for PauseAI to improve PauseAI’s comms/proofreading/factchecking; and then, months later, I was banned despite not having interacted with the server at all.
When I reached out after noticing not being able to join the server, there was a surprising combination of being very friendly and excited to chat and scheduling a call and getting my takes on strategy, looking surprised to find out that I was somehow banned, then talking about having “protocols” for notifying of the ban which somehow didn’t work, and mentioning you were discussing creating a way to contest the ban and saying stuff about the importance of allowing the kind of criticism that I did; and at the same time, zero transparency around the actual reasons for the ban, how it happened, why I wasn’t notified, and then giving zero updates.
It’s hard to assume that the PauseAI leadership is following deontology.
reached out to Joep asking for the record, he said “Holly wanted you banned” and it was a divisive topic in the team.
Uhh yeah sorry that there hasn’t been a consistent approach. In our defence I believe yours in the only complex moderation case that PauseAI Global has ever had to deal with so far and we’ve kinda dropped the ball on figuring out how to handle it.
For context my take is that you’ve raised some valid points. And also you’ve acted poorly in some parts of this long running drama. And most importantly you’ve often acted in a way that seems almost optimised to turn people off. Especially for people not familiar with LessWrong culture, the inferential distance between you and many people is so vast that they really cannot understand you at all. Your behavior pattern matches to trolling / nuisance attention seeking in many ways and I often struggle to communicate to more normie types why I don’t think you’re insane or malicious.
I do sincerely hope to iron this out some time and put in place actual systems for dealing with similar disputes in the future. And I did read over the original post + Google doc a few months ago to try to form my own views more robustly. But this probably won’t be a priority for PauseAI Global in the immediate future. Sorry.