I don’t think it warranted the strongly worded letter to the Lightcone team and the subsequent dramatic claims about evidence that you want to provide to clear your name.
It sounds like you’re interpreting Nonlinear folks as saying that the burger incident was the only false claim in Ben’s piece?
My interpretation is that Nonlinear objects to many claims in the piece but published this one (“one example of the evidence we’re gathering...”) in response to encouragement that they give examples of claims they object to. Probably because this was some combination of quicker to respond to / Nonlinear thought it looked better for them / easier for outsiders to understand.
That seems fair, but I don’t have any other concrete information, so for now, that’s my position based on the information I have. It may change on whatever else becomes available but I am skeptical of the value of any additional material that Nonlinear present because it seems that they covered all their main concerns already during their call with Ben and because this attempt to “provide evidence” backfired and in my opinion gives more credibility to Alice, not less. If this is an example of a “100% provable false claim” and a reason to call Alice a “bald-faced liar”, then the letter was absolutely disproportionate.
It sounds like you’re interpreting Nonlinear folks as saying that the burger incident was the only false claim in Ben’s piece?
My interpretation is that Nonlinear objects to many claims in the piece but published this one (“one example of the evidence we’re gathering...”) in response to encouragement that they give examples of claims they object to. Probably because this was some combination of quicker to respond to / Nonlinear thought it looked better for them / easier for outsiders to understand.
That seems fair, but I don’t have any other concrete information, so for now, that’s my position based on the information I have. It may change on whatever else becomes available but I am skeptical of the value of any additional material that Nonlinear present because it seems that they covered all their main concerns already during their call with Ben and because this attempt to “provide evidence” backfired and in my opinion gives more credibility to Alice, not less. If this is an example of a “100% provable false claim” and a reason to call Alice a “bald-faced liar”, then the letter was absolutely disproportionate.