Another two weeks later, and with no response or acknowledgement from Nonlinear (or even a statement about when they plan to give a response), I’m personally updating moderately towards the view that Nonlinear’s communications around the initial release of this post were more about FUD/DARVO than honesty. I’ve also updated further towards the position that it was right for Ben to post when he did, and that delaying would have been playing into the hands of bad actors. These remain defeasible positions, but I’m not holding my breath.
Have no fear! We are responding. We’ve been working on this full time the entire time. We have over 200 pages written so far and are in the last stages of editing to the point where we’ll be able to get feedback from friends. We’re aiming to get this done in the next few weeks because we want to be working on things that actually help with AI. However, it’s a very large doc, it’s a hostile audience, it takes way more effort to debunk something than to say something, etc. Also, man, I really hate editing, so it’s a bit of a slog.
(Obviously didn’t mean to write over 200 pages. Just Ben accused us of a lot of things and we were writing in multiple documents, so didn’t see what had happened until it was too late 😛.)
Another two weeks later, and with no response or acknowledgement from Nonlinear (or even a statement about when they plan to give a response), I’m personally updating moderately towards the view that Nonlinear’s communications around the initial release of this post were more about FUD/DARVO than honesty. I’ve also updated further towards the position that it was right for Ben to post when he did, and that delaying would have been playing into the hands of bad actors. These remain defeasible positions, but I’m not holding my breath.
Have no fear! We are responding. We’ve been working on this full time the entire time. We have over 200 pages written so far and are in the last stages of editing to the point where we’ll be able to get feedback from friends. We’re aiming to get this done in the next few weeks because we want to be working on things that actually help with AI. However, it’s a very large doc, it’s a hostile audience, it takes way more effort to debunk something than to say something, etc. Also, man, I really hate editing, so it’s a bit of a slog.
(Obviously didn’t mean to write over 200 pages. Just Ben accused us of a lot of things and we were writing in multiple documents, so didn’t see what had happened until it was too late 😛.)
@Kat Woods and @Emerson Spartz, any update on this?
Still working on it full time! I’d guess we’ll publish in the next 1-4 weeks. I really hope it is sooner. I want to finish this more than anybody.
Sorry for it taking so long. This is the first time I’ve ever done crisis communication and if I had a time machine, I’d do things differently.