I think you may not be aware of relevant context. (See the comment by Matis for the same point.) This has practically nothing to do with anonymity norms or evading forum bans. The point is that Zoe and Luke complained about the events before they posted their paper, implying that prominent people in EA tried to prevent them from publishing their thoughts and accused them of bad faith (and warnings that EA funders would not longer fund them, etc.). These accusations would seem to put “prominent EAs or EA funders” in a very bad light if their complaints and warnings were only directed at Zoe and Luke, two EAs with a good track record writing up their thoughts in a way that they consider fair and appropriate. By contrast, if such complaints/warnings were levelled against Torres or because of Torres (or even just in the context of the two of them collaborating closely with Torres as an initial co-author), that would make a lot of sense and seems hard to object to given Torres’s track record (which they already had at the time) of repeatedly making bizarre and wrong accusations and generally being on a kind of crusade against longtermist EA.
To be clear, everything they complain about was after I left the project (so far as I know). I was as surprised as anyone else to read Zoe’s EA Forum post—I hadn’t even seen a draft of it, and didn’t know she’d written it. Their complaints had nothing to do with me having worked on an early draft of the paper!
I think you may not be aware of relevant context. (See the comment by Matis for the same point.) This has practically nothing to do with anonymity norms or evading forum bans. The point is that Zoe and Luke complained about the events before they posted their paper, implying that prominent people in EA tried to prevent them from publishing their thoughts and accused them of bad faith (and warnings that EA funders would not longer fund them, etc.). These accusations would seem to put “prominent EAs or EA funders” in a very bad light if their complaints and warnings were only directed at Zoe and Luke, two EAs with a good track record writing up their thoughts in a way that they consider fair and appropriate. By contrast, if such complaints/warnings were levelled against Torres or because of Torres (or even just in the context of the two of them collaborating closely with Torres as an initial co-author), that would make a lot of sense and seems hard to object to given Torres’s track record (which they already had at the time) of repeatedly making bizarre and wrong accusations and generally being on a kind of crusade against longtermist EA.
To be clear, everything they complain about was after I left the project (so far as I know). I was as surprised as anyone else to read Zoe’s EA Forum post—I hadn’t even seen a draft of it, and didn’t know she’d written it. Their complaints had nothing to do with me having worked on an early draft of the paper!
Also worth noting that I’d mentioned our original collaboration to many people in the community prior to that tweet. This isn’t new information.