Hi Luzia. We did acknowledge that we’re no longer living with employees for exactly the reasons you expressed. You can see our “lessons learned” section here. And it’s not going to show up as much in the post, but I have probably spent a full month of full-time work analyzing what happened and what I can do better in the future.
I think we had reason to believe that living and working together would be fine. I’ve done it with many employees in the past and me and Emerson had been doing it for years. However, I do think it’s risky and it’s not worth the cost. I hope other EA orgs learn from what happened to us.
However, I do think that overall, this was small relative to the amount of things they lied or experienced delusions about. We’ve presented hundreds of pages of evidence showing that they told serious falsehoods that were extremely damaging to us.
I think that focusing on our tone or what we did wrong when they’ve demonstrably lied about dozens of claims is missing the point.
Maybe it was unwise of us to live with employees, but they told dozens of falsehoods and misled people in a way that will cause damage to us until the singularity.
Everybody should reflect on what they could do better in the future, and we have. But Alice, Ben, and Chloe have shown zero such reflection, have shown zero regret, and have legitimately caused massive damage that they could have prevented, whereas we lived with employees and hired somebody who’d never been an assistant before and didn’t like it.
Hi Luzia. We did acknowledge that we’re no longer living with employees for exactly the reasons you expressed. You can see our “lessons learned” section here. And it’s not going to show up as much in the post, but I have probably spent a full month of full-time work analyzing what happened and what I can do better in the future.
I think we had reason to believe that living and working together would be fine. I’ve done it with many employees in the past and me and Emerson had been doing it for years. However, I do think it’s risky and it’s not worth the cost. I hope other EA orgs learn from what happened to us.
However, I do think that overall, this was small relative to the amount of things they lied or experienced delusions about. We’ve presented hundreds of pages of evidence showing that they told serious falsehoods that were extremely damaging to us.
I think that focusing on our tone or what we did wrong when they’ve demonstrably lied about dozens of claims is missing the point.
Maybe it was unwise of us to live with employees, but they told dozens of falsehoods and misled people in a way that will cause damage to us until the singularity.
Everybody should reflect on what they could do better in the future, and we have. But Alice, Ben, and Chloe have shown zero such reflection, have shown zero regret, and have legitimately caused massive damage that they could have prevented, whereas we lived with employees and hired somebody who’d never been an assistant before and didn’t like it.