Even the people on Reddit who dug into his past and harassed him on his fake accounts thought he was just a self-promoting fraud and appeared to pick up nothing about altruism or charity.
Looking at the links you shared it looks like these accounts weren’t so much ‘fake’ but just new accounts from Gleb that were used for broadcasting/spamming Gleb’s book on Reddit. That attracted criticism for the aggressive self-promotion (both by sending to so many reddits, and the self-promotional spin in the message).
The commenters call out angela_theresa for creating a Reddit account just to promote the book. She references an Amazon review, and there is an Amazon review from the same time period by an Angela Hodge (not an InIn contractor). My judgment is that is a case of genuine appreciation of the book, perhaps encouraged by Gleb’s requests for various actions to advance the book. In one of the reviews she mentions that she knows Gleb personally, but says she got a lot out of the book.
At least one other account was created to promote the book, but I haven’t been able to determine whether it was an InIn affiliate. Gleb says he
didn’t ask, I mean specifically that I did not in any way hint that they should do so or that doing so is a good idea 🙂 Again, I want to be clear that they might or might not have done so out of their own initiative
Ok my goal was not to launch accusations, I just wanted to point out that even when people were saying this (they thought they were fake accounts) and looking into his personal info they didn’t say anything about altruism or charity, so the themes behind the content weren’t apparent, meaning that there was little or no damage to EA. Because most of the content on the site and book isn’t about charity or altruism, it’s not clear how well this promotes people to actually donate and stuff, but it can’t be very harmful.
Looking at the links you shared it looks like these accounts weren’t so much ‘fake’ but just new accounts from Gleb that were used for broadcasting/spamming Gleb’s book on Reddit. That attracted criticism for the aggressive self-promotion (both by sending to so many reddits, and the self-promotional spin in the message).
The commenters call out angela_theresa for creating a Reddit account just to promote the book. She references an Amazon review, and there is an Amazon review from the same time period by an Angela Hodge (not an InIn contractor). My judgment is that is a case of genuine appreciation of the book, perhaps encouraged by Gleb’s requests for various actions to advance the book. In one of the reviews she mentions that she knows Gleb personally, but says she got a lot out of the book.
At least one other account was created to promote the book, but I haven’t been able to determine whether it was an InIn affiliate. Gleb says he
Ok my goal was not to launch accusations, I just wanted to point out that even when people were saying this (they thought they were fake accounts) and looking into his personal info they didn’t say anything about altruism or charity, so the themes behind the content weren’t apparent, meaning that there was little or no damage to EA. Because most of the content on the site and book isn’t about charity or altruism, it’s not clear how well this promotes people to actually donate and stuff, but it can’t be very harmful.
Right, I just wanted to diminish uncertainty about the topic and reduce speculation, since it had not been previously mentioned.