Both Kat and Emerson are claiming that there have been edits to this post.[1]
I wonder whether an appendix or summary of changes to important claims would be fair and appropriate, given the length of post and severity of allegations? It’d help readers keep up with these changes, and it is likely most time-efficient for the author making the edits to document these as they go along.
his original post (he’s quietly redacted a lot of points since publishing) had a lot of falsehoods that he knew were not true. He has since removed some of them after the fact, but those have still been causing us damage.
Ben has also been quietly fixing errors in the post, which I appreciate, but people are going around right now attacking us for things that Ben got wrong, because how would they know he quietly changed the post?
This is why every time newspapers get caught making a mistake they issue a public retraction the next day to let everyone know. I believe Ben should make these retractions more visible
“Alice worked there from November 2021 to June 2022” became “Alice travelled with Nonlinear from November 2021 to June 2022 and started working for the org from around February”
“using Lightcone funds” became “using personal funds”
So it seems Kat’s comment is wrong and Emerson’s is misleading/wrong. They are free to point to another specific edit if it exists.
Update: Kat guesses she was thinking of changes from a near-final draft rather than changes from the first published version.
Both Kat and Emerson are claiming that there have been edits to this post.[1]
I wonder whether an appendix or summary of changes to important claims would be fair and appropriate, given the length of post and severity of allegations? It’d help readers keep up with these changes, and it is likely most time-efficient for the author making the edits to document these as they go along.
@Ben Pace
[Edit: Kat has since retracted her statement.]
I used a diff checker to find the differences between the current post and the original post. There seem to be two:
“Alice worked there from November 2021 to June 2022” became “Alice travelled with Nonlinear from November 2021 to June 2022 and started working for the org from around February”
“using Lightcone funds” became “using personal funds”
So it seems Kat’s comment is wrong and Emerson’s is misleading/wrong. They are free to point to another specific edit if it exists.
Update: Kat guesses she was thinking of changes from a near-final draft rather than changes from the first published version.