I mistrusted ialdabaoth from the start, though it’s worth saying that I judged him to be a dangerous manipulator and probable abuser from in-person interactions long before the accusations came out, so it’s not just his LessWrong content.
In any case, I found it impossible to argue on his own terms (not because he’d make decent counterarguments, but because he’d try to corrupt the frame of the conversation instead of making counterarguments). So instead I did things like write this post as a direct rebuttal to something he’d written (maybe on LessWrong, maybe on Facebook) about how honesty and consent were fake concepts used to disguise the power differentials of popularity (which ultimately culminates in an implied “high status people sometimes get away with bad behavior X, so don’t condemn me when I do X”.)
I mistrusted ialdabaoth from the start, though it’s worth saying that I judged him to be a dangerous manipulator and probable abuser from in-person interactions long before the accusations came out, so it’s not just his LessWrong content.
In any case, I found it impossible to argue on his own terms (not because he’d make decent counterarguments, but because he’d try to corrupt the frame of the conversation instead of making counterarguments). So instead I did things like write this post as a direct rebuttal to something he’d written (maybe on LessWrong, maybe on Facebook) about how honesty and consent were fake concepts used to disguise the power differentials of popularity (which ultimately culminates in an implied “high status people sometimes get away with bad behavior X, so don’t condemn me when I do X”.)