Nobody ever talks about this, but a cult infiltrated and took over EA.
People do talk about Leverage—that is how you know about them—but they did not take over EA, and nor does the comment you cite from Habryka claim this.
People do talk about Leverage—that is how you know about them
The sense in which this is true is the sense in which I did not claim otherwise. In the sense in which I claimed otherwise, this is false.
When people say “nobody talks about this”, they obviously don’t mean literally nobody has ever talked about it. This is just a misunderstanding of ordinary language. Surely you understand the meaning of this phrase?
I don’t understand why people leave comments like this. How does it help? How does it settle anything? I don’t want to engage with this kind of non-substantive, hyper-literal semantic nitpicking. I’m going to try to resist the temptation to engage further with these kinds of comments if I see them.
It might be worse for EA than FTX that the EA community is so often just so unpleasant to interact with. People inside the EA bubble seem unaware of how they come across to people outside it (or they don’t care, or they find they can’t change their behaviour even if they want to).
Also, the EA Forum should implement a block feature. It would make the forum more usable.
People do talk about Leverage—that is how you know about them—but they did not take over EA, and nor does the comment you cite from Habryka claim this.
The sense in which this is true is the sense in which I did not claim otherwise. In the sense in which I claimed otherwise, this is false.
When people say “nobody talks about this”, they obviously don’t mean literally nobody has ever talked about it. This is just a misunderstanding of ordinary language. Surely you understand the meaning of this phrase?
I don’t understand why people leave comments like this. How does it help? How does it settle anything? I don’t want to engage with this kind of non-substantive, hyper-literal semantic nitpicking. I’m going to try to resist the temptation to engage further with these kinds of comments if I see them.
It might be worse for EA than FTX that the EA community is so often just so unpleasant to interact with. People inside the EA bubble seem unaware of how they come across to people outside it (or they don’t care, or they find they can’t change their behaviour even if they want to).
Also, the EA Forum should implement a block feature. It would make the forum more usable.