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TagLast edit: 19 Jan 2024 13:55 UTC by habryka

For posts documenting and/​or responding to drama or scandals within the rationalist community and beyond.

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Reli­able Sources: The Story of David Gerard

TracingWoodgrains10 Jul 2024 19:50 UTC
381 points
53 comments43 min readLW link

Non­lin­ear’s Ev­i­dence: De­bunk­ing False and Mislead­ing Claims

KatWoods12 Dec 2023 13:16 UTC
104 points
171 comments1 min readLW link

Shar­ing In­for­ma­tion About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC
322 points
323 comments34 min readLW link

My ex­pe­rience at and around MIRI and CFAR (in­spired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of ex­pe­riences at Lev­er­age)

jessicata16 Oct 2021 21:28 UTC
84 points
949 comments22 min readLW link

OpenAI: The Bat­tle of the Board

Zvi22 Nov 2023 17:30 UTC
283 points
83 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Link] A com­mu­nity alert about Ziz

DanielFilan24 Feb 2023 0:06 UTC
163 points
126 comments2 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Sadly, FTX

Zvi17 Nov 2022 14:30 UTC
133 points
18 comments47 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A quick up­date from Nonlinear

KatWoods7 Sep 2023 21:28 UTC
72 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

Zvi20 Nov 2023 15:30 UTC
271 points
165 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

EA Ve­gan Ad­vo­cacy is not truth­seek­ing, and it’s ev­ery­one’s problem

Elizabeth28 Sep 2023 23:30 UTC
319 points
247 comments22 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

The FTX Saga—Simplified

Annapurna16 Nov 2022 2:42 UTC
44 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(jorgevelez.substack.com)

Clos­ing Notes on Non­lin­ear Investigation

Ben Pace15 Sep 2023 22:44 UTC
97 points
47 comments11 min readLW link

Against Non­lin­ear (Thing Of Things)

tailcalled18 Jan 2024 21:40 UTC
58 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

Zoe Curzi’s Ex­pe­rience with Lev­er­age Research

Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive13 Oct 2021 4:44 UTC
229 points
261 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Based Beff Je­zos and the Accelerationists

Zvi6 Dec 2023 16:00 UTC
89 points
29 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sam Alt­man’s sister, An­nie Alt­man, claims Sam has severely abused her

pl50157 Oct 2023 21:06 UTC
101 points
107 comments87 min readLW link

Sam Alt­man fired from OpenAI

LawrenceC17 Nov 2023 20:42 UTC
192 points
75 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

Com­mon knowl­edge about Lev­er­age Re­search 1.0

BayAreaHuman24 Sep 2021 6:56 UTC
205 points
212 comments5 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cally A Book Re­view: Ap­pendix to “Non­lin­ear’s Ev­i­dence: De­bunk­ing False and Mislead­ing Claims” (ThingOfThings)

tailcalled3 Jan 2024 17:07 UTC
111 points
25 comments2 min readLW link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

Effec­tive Asper­sions: How the Non­lin­ear In­ves­ti­ga­tion Went Wrong

TracingWoodgrains19 Dec 2023 12:00 UTC
175 points
170 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI Staff (in­clud­ing Sutskever) Threaten to Quit Un­less Board Resigns

Seth Herd20 Nov 2023 14:20 UTC
52 points
28 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

Ra­tion­al­ist Town Hall: FTX Fal­lout Edi­tion (RSVP Re­quired)

Ben Pace23 Nov 2022 1:38 UTC
43 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

A Girar­dian in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the Alt­man af­fair, it’s on my to-do list

Bill Benzon20 Nov 2023 12:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

FTX will prob­a­bly be sold at a steep dis­count. What we know and some fore­casts on what will hap­pen next

Nathan Young9 Nov 2022 2:14 UTC
60 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Re­lated Dis­cus­sion from Thomas Kwa’s MIRI Re­search Experience

Raemon7 Oct 2023 6:25 UTC
71 points
140 comments1 min readLW link

Sense-mak­ing around the FTX catas­tro­phe: a deep dive pod­cast epi­sode we just released

spencerg30 Nov 2022 1:54 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Oc­cu­pa­tional Infohazards

jessicata18 Dec 2021 20:56 UTC
35 points
134 comments47 min readLW link

Not­ing an un­sub­stan­ti­ated com­mu­nal be­lief about the FTX disaster

Yitz13 Nov 2022 5:37 UTC
50 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Austin LW meetup notes: The FTX Affair

jchan22 Nov 2022 14:01 UTC
20 points
3 comments16 min readLW link