Yeah, some of this gets the facts wrong, or a bit off. I don’t think this was fact-checked very competently, and in this sort of context, that does matter.
(ex: I can confirm that mittenscautious was not Aella, although Aella was indeed a housemate to Persephone.)
...I hate dishing based on something this speculative, but I do think it’s a potentially relevant piece of context...
Aella and Geoff (Executive Director of Leverage) have a lot of enmity towards each other. This is just straightforwardly true.
If I am identifying the author of this Aella-attacking post, correctly? The author of this post was a special guest on one of Geoff Anders’ Twitch streams.
I’m normally a mistake theorist, but I find it really tempting to interpret this as the end result of talking to a really skewed sample of people.
(And I might be assigning better-than-even odds that Geoff was involved in that process, somehow.)
UPDATE: I’m updating a few steps in the direction of “I may have gotten some of the causality here, backwards.” Tension with Aella predates that. Disliked Aella’s MAPLE post, and this might have been some of why he and Geoff got in touch.
If I am identifying the author of this Aella-attacking post, correctly? The author of this post was a special guest on one of Geoff Anders’ Twitch streams.
But after thinking a bit more, including hearing a little more background context from Aella? I think the tension here predates that, and that this is predominantly a reaction to the MAPLE post. Please treat this mostly as a side-note.
There’s no recording anymore, but I actually appreciated him on the stream. My overall take on the author is “has a lot of compassion, but I don’t always trust his discernment.”
Is it known whether the author is the same person who commented on the “Frame Control” post under the name of “blueiris” (and, after that account was banned, “blueiris2”, and then “blueiris3″) complaining about how Aella was taking unfair advantage of her feminine wiles to get her stuff well received on Less Wrong?
Thanks. I am not sure I would trust the author of the post (1) not to lie outright and (2) to kinda-not-exactly-lie by taking the view that one doesn’t know oneself, but your report is certainly some evidence that they are two different people (with, apparently, somewhat similar attitudes to Aella and to Leverage).
Yeah, some of this gets the facts wrong, or a bit off. I don’t think this was fact-checked very competently, and in this sort of context, that does matter.
(ex: I can confirm that mittenscautious was not Aella, although Aella was indeed a housemate to Persephone.)
...I hate dishing based on something this speculative, but I do think it’s a potentially relevant piece of context...
Aella and Geoff (Executive Director of Leverage) have a lot of enmity towards each other. This is just straightforwardly true.
If I am identifying the author of this Aella-attacking post, correctly? The author of this post was a special guest on one of Geoff Anders’ Twitch streams.
I’m normally a mistake theorist, but I find it really tempting to interpret this as the end result of talking to a really skewed sample of people.
(And I might be assigning better-than-even odds that Geoff was involved in that process, somehow.)
UPDATE: I’m updating a few steps in the direction of “I may have gotten some of the causality here, backwards.” Tension with Aella predates that. Disliked Aella’s MAPLE post, and this might have been some of why he and Geoff got in touch.
I’d love it if someone can confirm or deny this.
Geoff tweeted about it, I forwarded that to you.
But after thinking a bit more, including hearing a little more background context from Aella? I think the tension here predates that, and that this is predominantly a reaction to the MAPLE post. Please treat this mostly as a side-note.
There’s no recording anymore, but I actually appreciated him on the stream. My overall take on the author is “has a lot of compassion, but I don’t always trust his discernment.”
I can confirm this. There’s a transcript from the interview somewhere, I can dig it up if you want.
Is it known whether the author is the same person who commented on the “Frame Control” post under the name of “blueiris” (and, after that account was banned, “blueiris2”, and then “blueiris3″) complaining about how Aella was taking unfair advantage of her feminine wiles to get her stuff well received on Less Wrong?
I asked the author of this post whether they knew blueiris. He said he did not.
Thanks. I am not sure I would trust the author of the post (1) not to lie outright and (2) to kinda-not-exactly-lie by taking the view that one doesn’t know oneself, but your report is certainly some evidence that they are two different people (with, apparently, somewhat similar attitudes to Aella and to Leverage).