A comment I initially posted elsewhere in private:
I have to wonder how much was reputation-laundering from the beginning… maybe it was just reputational-laundering among his friend group?
Like, if I was a competitive sociopath, who landed in an EA social group for auxiliary reasons, but wanted to launder my reputation with them, it wouldn’t be as easy as reputation-laundering from the POV of the general public.
Think: putting your name on a university building VS pretending to be a semi-competent longtermist.
A comment I initially posted elsewhere in private: I have to wonder how much was reputation-laundering from the beginning… maybe it was just reputational-laundering among his friend group?
Like, if I was a competitive sociopath, who landed in an EA social group for auxiliary reasons, but wanted to launder my reputation with them, it wouldn’t be as easy as reputation-laundering from the POV of the general public.
Think: putting your name on a university building VS pretending to be a semi-competent longtermist.