If you take the Twitter thread making allegations against Vassar and against other people was well the obvious question is why no actions are taken against the other people who stand accused but actions are taken against Vassar.
If you would ask Vassar he would say something like: “It’s because I criticized the EA and the rationality community and people wanted to get rid of me.”
Anna Salamon’s comment seems like an admission that this is central to what was going on. In a decentralized environment that makes it very hard to know whether to copy the decisions of others to ban people, especially if it comes without public reasoning.
Besides that Twitter thread you linked, there are also the accusations that Brent Dill made against Vassar and others (which I currently don’t believe to be true). Interestingly, Vassar hinted in the direction that those allegations are the reasons Brent Dill was thrown out of the community at the SSC online meetup.
There are also allegations about Vassar lying where the most consequential one was told to me under confidentiality. I think there’s a failure of EA institutions not to share that one.
If you take the Twitter thread making allegations against Vassar and against other people was well the obvious question is why no actions are taken against the other people who stand accused but actions are taken against Vassar.
Are there any allegations in that thread against other people that you’d consider assault?
If you take the Twitter thread making allegations against Vassar and against other people was well the obvious question is why no actions are taken against the other people who stand accused but actions are taken against Vassar.
If you would ask Vassar he would say something like: “It’s because I criticized the EA and the rationality community and people wanted to get rid of me.”
Anna Salamon’s comment seems like an admission that this is central to what was going on. In a decentralized environment that makes it very hard to know whether to copy the decisions of others to ban people, especially if it comes without public reasoning.
Besides that Twitter thread you linked, there are also the accusations that Brent Dill made against Vassar and others (which I currently don’t believe to be true). Interestingly, Vassar hinted in the direction that those allegations are the reasons Brent Dill was thrown out of the community at the SSC online meetup.
There are also allegations about Vassar lying where the most consequential one was told to me under confidentiality. I think there’s a failure of EA institutions not to share that one.
Are there any allegations in that thread against other people that you’d consider assault?