If you’re referring to the same point about his claim to be a cofounder, I did just see that. However, unless I see some additional and/or more-egregious quotes from Jacy, I have a fairly negative evaluation of your accusation. Perhaps his claim was a bit exaggerative combined with being easily misinterpreted, but it seems he has walked it back.
Ultimately, this really does not qualify in my mind as “a history of lying.”
You could also read the entirety of the research he produced for ACE, which it would be fair to describe as ‘comprised entirely of bullshit’.
To stress, it is completely ludicrous for him to claim that he is a co-founder of effective altruism, unless he interpreted the claim to be true of like Sasha Cooper or Pablo Stafforini. They would never say that they are founders of effective altruism because it is not true and they are not sociopaths (like Jacy is).
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Please provide specific quotes, I spent a few minutes reading the first part of that without seeing what you were referring to
If you’re referring to the same point about his claim to be a cofounder, I did just see that. However, unless I see some additional and/or more-egregious quotes from Jacy, I have a fairly negative evaluation of your accusation. Perhaps his claim was a bit exaggerative combined with being easily misinterpreted, but it seems he has walked it back. Ultimately, this really does not qualify in my mind as “a history of lying.”
You could also read the entirety of the research he produced for ACE, which it would be fair to describe as ‘comprised entirely of bullshit’.
To stress, it is completely ludicrous for him to claim that he is a co-founder of effective altruism, unless he interpreted the claim to be true of like Sasha Cooper or Pablo Stafforini. They would never say that they are founders of effective altruism because it is not true and they are not sociopaths (like Jacy is).
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