I wasn’t there, so who knows how I would have reacted, it probably looks different in hindsight, but it seems like there were already red flags, some people noticed them, and others ignored them:
Salamon told Open Vallejo that LaSota attended three CFAR events between 2014 and 2018. Concerned by their “weird” behavior and interactions with other CFAR attendees, Salamon tried to convince a joint admissions committee between the Machine Intelligence Learning Institute and CFAR to not admit LaSota into their month-long summer fellowship in 2018. Salamon, however, was overruled.
“When LaSota attended the final program in summer 2018, I was physically afraid in a way I’ve never been with anyone else,” Salamon said in an email to Open Vallejo.
Salamon was concerned with some of the ideas that LaSota talked about during the workshops and with her in private. They included theories on “hemispheric sleep,” in which LaSota claimed that humans can split their consciousness between two sides of the brain, allowing one side to sleep while the other is awake, she said. In addition, these two sides of the brain may be “good,” “evil,” or both.
I wasn’t there, so who knows how I would have reacted, it probably looks different in hindsight, but it seems like there were already red flags, some people noticed them, and others ignored them:
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