I mean I just don’t take Ben to be a reasonable actor regarding his opinions on EA? I doubt you’ll see him open up and fully explain a) who the people he’s arguing with are or b) what the explicit change in EA to an “NGO patronage network” was with names, details, public evidence of the above, and being willing to change his mind to counter-evidence.
He seems to have been related to Leverage Research, maybe in the original days?[1] And there was a big falling out there, any many people linked to original Leverage hate “EA” with the fire of a thousand burning suns. Then he linked up with Samo Burja at Bismarck Analysis and also with Palladium, which definitely links him the emerging Thielian tech-right, kinda what I talk about here. (Ozzie also had a good LW comment about this here).
In the original tweet Emmett Shear replies, and then it’s spiralled into loads of fractal discussions, and I’m still not really clear what Ben means. Maybe you can get more clarification in Twitter DMs rather than having an argument where he’ll want to dig into his position publicly?
Ben Landau-Taylor tweeted this a couple of days back:
It has been annoying me, since I don’t think it’s accurate. Here is my proposed response (These aren’t tweets, it’s a scheduling app where I draft):
I would appreciate criticism.
I mean I just don’t take Ben to be a reasonable actor regarding his opinions on EA? I doubt you’ll see him open up and fully explain a) who the people he’s arguing with are or b) what the explicit change in EA to an “NGO patronage network” was with names, details, public evidence of the above, and being willing to change his mind to counter-evidence.
He seems to have been related to Leverage Research, maybe in the original days?[1] And there was a big falling out there, any many people linked to original Leverage hate “EA” with the fire of a thousand burning suns. Then he linked up with Samo Burja at Bismarck Analysis and also with Palladium, which definitely links him the emerging Thielian tech-right, kinda what I talk about here. (Ozzie also had a good LW comment about this here).
In the original tweet Emmett Shear replies, and then it’s spiralled into loads of fractal discussions, and I’m still not really clear what Ben means. Maybe you can get more clarification in Twitter DMs rather than having an argument where he’ll want to dig into his position publicly?
For the record, a double Leverage & Vassar connection seems pretty disqualifying to me—especially as i’m very Bay sceptical anyway
I like Ben personally.
I don’t intend to quote tweet him, but I’d like someone to make a kind of defence.