I like reading outsider accounts of things I’m involved in / things I care about.
Just for context for some not aware—The author, Ben Landau-Taylor, has been in the rationalist-extended community for some time now. This post is written on Palladium Magazine, which I believe basically is part of Samo Burja’s setup. I think both used to be around Leverage Research and some other rationality/EA orgs.
Ben and Samo have been working on behalf of Palladium and similar for a while now.
My quick read is that this article is analogous to similar takes they’ve written about/discussed before, which is not too much of a surprise.
I disagree with a lot of their intuitions, but at the same time, I’m happy to have more voices discuss some of these topics.
All this to say, while these people aren’t exactly part of the scene now, they’re much closer to it than what many might imagine as “outsider accounts.”
Yes. I was properly a member of LW from 2012 to ~2016, and did a lot of community organizing at the time. I’m still friends with a bunch of people here. I could only write this historical account because I saw it develop firsthand and actively participated in its early stages.
Just for context for some not aware—The author, Ben Landau-Taylor, has been in the rationalist-extended community for some time now. This post is written on Palladium Magazine, which I believe basically is part of Samo Burja’s setup. I think both used to be around Leverage Research and some other rationality/EA orgs.
Ben and Samo have been working on behalf of Palladium and similar for a while now.
My quick read is that this article is analogous to similar takes they’ve written about/discussed before, which is not too much of a surprise.
I disagree with a lot of their intuitions, but at the same time, I’m happy to have more voices discuss some of these topics.
All this to say, while these people aren’t exactly part of the scene now, they’re much closer to it than what many might imagine as “outsider accounts.”
Yes. I was properly a member of LW from 2012 to ~2016, and did a lot of community organizing at the time. I’m still friends with a bunch of people here. I could only write this historical account because I saw it develop firsthand and actively participated in its early stages.