He has defended the right to platform very controversial people and opinions. He has made a big deal of speaking truth to power—yet when he is the powerful party it seems he can see the mote in another but not the beam in his own eye.
Come on, I am not going to ban Scott Alexander from events here, or LessWrong.
Some of the services Lightcone provides are relatively neutral pieces of infrastructure where access is taken by default as a right, and some of them are highly discretionary where access is a privilege. Whether to actively host ACX meetups at Lighthaven for free is IMO clearly a privilege not a right. We don’t do that for literally anyone else besides the sequences reading groups and a few researchers we are extremely close to.
(Beyond that, I do want to actively set the expectation that I expect to make infrastructure and culture and access decisions in ways that will be driven by pretty complicated inside-view considerations of mine that I do not promise to always make maximally legible or be uncontroversial. I e.g. think it was the right choice to ban Said from LessWrong, and will make similar choices in the future. Please do not later say that you supported me or LessWrong only conditional on me never doing that!)
Come on, I am not going to ban Scott Alexander from events here, or LessWrong.
Some of the services Lightcone provides are relatively neutral pieces of infrastructure where access is taken by default as a right, and some of them are highly discretionary where access is a privilege. Whether to actively host ACX meetups at Lighthaven for free is IMO clearly a privilege not a right. We don’t do that for literally anyone else besides the sequences reading groups and a few researchers we are extremely close to.
(Beyond that, I do want to actively set the expectation that I expect to make infrastructure and culture and access decisions in ways that will be driven by pretty complicated inside-view considerations of mine that I do not promise to always make maximally legible or be uncontroversial. I e.g. think it was the right choice to ban Said from LessWrong, and will make similar choices in the future. Please do not later say that you supported me or LessWrong only conditional on me never doing that!)