Appreciate your response. I have more thoughts, but am probably not going to comment much further for a while, unless there is a lot more activity on this post.
I recognize that you’re not the right counterparty for Nonlinear’s specific claims, but I do think you’re in as much of a position to address my process concerns as Ben is.
I do think this is definitely not true. I know much less about the process that gave rise to Ben’s post than Ben does. I have a high-level overview, and I made decisions at a very high level of “how much time to allocate to this investigation”, but when it comes to details like:
what exactly happened for fact-checking purposes,
how much different claims are backed up by primary sources vs. witness accounts,
how much private evidence there is that didn’t make it into the post,
what the exact tradeoffs were for delaying vs. not-delaying,
how much it seemed like Nonlinear was bluffing vs. being real about promising to provide counter-evidence in a week
that is stuff that Ben has substantially more information on than I have, all of which seem relevant to the claims made in your post.
I am trying my best to share what information I have, mostly to free up time for Ben to do a more substantial response to the full post. But please don’t mistake my knowledge here for anything remotely as thorough as where Ben is at. I expect his comments on process to also be substantially superior to mine.
Appreciate your response. I have more thoughts, but am probably not going to comment much further for a while, unless there is a lot more activity on this post.
I do think this is definitely not true. I know much less about the process that gave rise to Ben’s post than Ben does. I have a high-level overview, and I made decisions at a very high level of “how much time to allocate to this investigation”, but when it comes to details like:
what exactly happened for fact-checking purposes,
how much different claims are backed up by primary sources vs. witness accounts,
how much private evidence there is that didn’t make it into the post,
what the exact tradeoffs were for delaying vs. not-delaying,
how much it seemed like Nonlinear was bluffing vs. being real about promising to provide counter-evidence in a week
that is stuff that Ben has substantially more information on than I have, all of which seem relevant to the claims made in your post.
I am trying my best to share what information I have, mostly to free up time for Ben to do a more substantial response to the full post. But please don’t mistake my knowledge here for anything remotely as thorough as where Ben is at. I expect his comments on process to also be substantially superior to mine.
Perfectly reasonable. I appreciate your engagement and look forward to Ben’s response.