That’s a very unusual use of the word “reused” that would predictably mislead readers of the OP who have not read Bostrom’s apology. Bostrom quoted the entire 26-year-old email as is (excluding the first and last lines with the name of the person he was replying to and his own name and email address).
In my experience, there’s a pattern, in social attacks like this, where critics are persistently, consistently unwilling to restrain themselves to only making criticisms that are true, regardless of whether the true criticisms would have been enough. This is a big deal and should not be tolerated.
I didn’t make that claim in the grandparent comment, and I don’t know of any specific other deceptive statements in it. But, on consideration… yeah, there probably are. Most of the post is about internal details of FHI operations which I know little about and have no easy way to verify. The claim about the Apology is different in that it’s easy to check; it seems reasonable to expect that if the most-verifiable part contains an overreach, then the less-verifiable parts probably do too.
Where? You mean in the 26-year-old email that he quoted in the apology? If so, the above claim seems unfair and deceptive.
The point is that he reused the term, and didn’t redact it by e.g. saying “n------!!!!” or “the n-word”.
That’s a very unusual use of the word “reused” that would predictably mislead readers of the OP who have not read Bostrom’s apology. Bostrom quoted the entire 26-year-old email as is (excluding the first and last lines with the name of the person he was replying to and his own name and email address).
That’s mentioning the term, not using it.
I agree that this is an unfair claim but the post wouldn’t lose much force without it
In my experience, there’s a pattern, in social attacks like this, where critics are persistently, consistently unwilling to restrain themselves to only making criticisms that are true, regardless of whether the true criticisms would have been enough. This is a big deal and should not be tolerated.
Are you claiming that there are other deceptive statements in this post?
I didn’t make that claim in the grandparent comment, and I don’t know of any specific other deceptive statements in it. But, on consideration… yeah, there probably are. Most of the post is about internal details of FHI operations which I know little about and have no easy way to verify. The claim about the Apology is different in that it’s easy to check; it seems reasonable to expect that if the most-verifiable part contains an overreach, then the less-verifiable parts probably do too.