gwern posts here very infrequently (and when he does, it’s usually just linking to other places)
I’m very sure that gwern’s lack of posting here has nothing to do with any sort of “Said might post annoying comments under my posts” concern. (Gwern can speak for himself, of course, but I am just registering my prediction about what he would/will say.)
… does not get paid large sums of cash money for posting on LW. This seems to quite suffice to explain his preference for Substack.
lukeprog hasn’t been seriously active on this site for 7 years
As far as I can tell, he hasn’t been seriously active anywhere else, either. (Heck, he doesn’t even seem to care about maintaining access to his old writings—try clicking on some links to his site, in older LW posts; most of them are dead links, now.)
Roko comments much less than he used to more than a decade ago
… I rather think that the blame for that one can be placed squarely on a certain someone’s shoulders, and that someone sure ain’t me.
I remain highly skeptical of claims about my alleged effects (via my commenting, anyhow) on anyone or anything, but at least in principle I’m fine with accepting responsibility for the consequences of my actions (whether those consequences are good or bad is, of course, an entirely different question). But a lot of the stuff that you mention here has nothing whatsoever to do with me, or with anyone like me, or anything connected to me in any way.
P.S.: Apologies in advance for what will be a lack of prompt replies to comments; it seems that I am currently rate-limited such that I can only post one comment per day, on the whole site.
Out of curiosity, what evidence would change your mind?
This one seems pretty easy. If multiple notable past contributors speak out themselves and say that they stopped contributing to LW because of individual persistently annoying commenters, naming Said as one of them, that would be pretty clear evidence. Also socially awkward of course. But the general mindset of old-school internet forum discourse is that stuff people say publicly under their own accounts exists and claimed backchannel communications are shit someone made up to win an argument.
I’m very sure that gwern’s lack of posting here has nothing to do with any sort of “Said might post annoying comments under my posts” concern. (Gwern can speak for himself, of course, but I am just registering my prediction about what he would/will say.)
… does not get paid large sums of cash money for posting on LW. This seems to quite suffice to explain his preference for Substack.
As far as I can tell, he hasn’t been seriously active anywhere else, either. (Heck, he doesn’t even seem to care about maintaining access to his old writings—try clicking on some links to his site, in older LW posts; most of them are dead links, now.)
… I rather think that the blame for that one can be placed squarely on a certain someone’s shoulders, and that someone sure ain’t me.
I remain highly skeptical of claims about my alleged effects (via my commenting, anyhow) on anyone or anything, but at least in principle I’m fine with accepting responsibility for the consequences of my actions (whether those consequences are good or bad is, of course, an entirely different question). But a lot of the stuff that you mention here has nothing whatsoever to do with me, or with anyone like me, or anything connected to me in any way.
P.S.: Apologies in advance for what will be a lack of prompt replies to comments; it seems that I am currently rate-limited such that I can only post one comment per day, on the whole site.
Out of curiosity, what evidence would change your mind? I naively expected habryka’s comment would but you don’t seem to agree.
(Feel free not to reply – the rate-limit on you is pretty severe, and my query is mere idle curiosity.)
This one seems pretty easy. If multiple notable past contributors speak out themselves and say that they stopped contributing to LW because of individual persistently annoying commenters, naming Said as one of them, that would be pretty clear evidence. Also socially awkward of course. But the general mindset of old-school internet forum discourse is that stuff people say publicly under their own accounts exists and claimed backchannel communications are shit someone made up to win an argument.