I agree that Gleb appears to be bad at status games. I don’t have a view about whether he is deliberately engaging in them (I’d kind of expect him to be better if he conceived of himself as engaging in them, but I observe that he has generated status among some group of supporters of InIn).
I think he should take a break from EA promotion and try to learn how to do better in this domain, in a way that doesn’t take up large slices of time and attention from the EA community. It seems possible that he could come to be a productive member of the community, although I’m a bit pessimistic on the basis of the amount of feedback he has received without apparently fixing the important issues. ‘Learning to do better’ means not necessarily getting very good at status games, but getting good enough to recognise what might be construed as engaging in them, and avoiding that. I also think it’s crucial that he moves from a position of trying to avoid saying strictly-false things to trying to avoid saying things that could lead people to take away false impressions.
I agree that Gleb appears to be bad at status games. I don’t have a view about whether he is deliberately engaging in them (I’d kind of expect him to be better if he conceived of himself as engaging in them, but I observe that he has generated status among some group of supporters of InIn).
I think he should take a break from EA promotion and try to learn how to do better in this domain, in a way that doesn’t take up large slices of time and attention from the EA community. It seems possible that he could come to be a productive member of the community, although I’m a bit pessimistic on the basis of the amount of feedback he has received without apparently fixing the important issues. ‘Learning to do better’ means not necessarily getting very good at status games, but getting good enough to recognise what might be construed as engaging in them, and avoiding that. I also think it’s crucial that he moves from a position of trying to avoid saying strictly-false things to trying to avoid saying things that could lead people to take away false impressions.
(Views my own, not my employer’s.)