Now that I’m looking at these with a more careful eye, I can see that they all say Manifest is independently operated with its own organizers, etc. I can understand how from the inside, it would be obvious that Manifest was run by completely different people and had (I’m now presuming) little direct LessWrong involvement. I just think it should be apparent that this is less clear from the outside, and it wouldn’t be hard for someone to be confused on this point.
Yeah, I think this is fair. I think using the language “no idea what people mean” in exchange for “I think these people are wrong and I think are capable of figuring out that they are wrong” (which is closer to what I meant) is a bad rhetorical move and I shouldn’t have used it.
Yeah, I think this is fair. I think using the language “no idea what people mean” in exchange for “I think these people are wrong and I think are capable of figuring out that they are wrong” (which is closer to what I meant) is a bad rhetorical move and I shouldn’t have used it.