Brent Dill was not the only case. There were also accusations of statutory rape against Eliezer Yudkowsky (and others):
Here’s an open letter to Vitalik Buterin discussing miricult.com, the donations from Jeffrey Epstein, and other things (if the facebook discussion mentioned in the link is real, it’s pretty damning):
https://fredwynne.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-vitalik-buterin-ce4681a7dbe
I really can’t overstate how important it is for there to be answer about what happened with miricult.com, but all I really know is that no one seems to be willing to talk about it.
Anyways, there’s more:
https://twitter.com/RuffleJax/status/1009140252085243906
https://twitter.com/RuffleJax/status/1009630452322316289
Time Magazine article
https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/
Read the facebook thread again and don’t equivocate. Vassar was the primary source only for the claim that MIRI gave into blackmail. Vassar was not the source for the claims of statutory rape.
The comment that says “I am confident that some of the things on the Miri cult website have nonzero truth to them” was not from Vassar. The discussions about whether the statue of limitations still applies did not involve Vassar either.
Yudkowsky, for his part, went on the record saying that “pedophilia is not the same as ephebophilia.” around the same time. Do you think that is an acceptable opinion?
The very same Eliezer Yudkowsky came on this forum telling EAs that they should keep money they received from FTX—money that was known to be stolen from FTX customers in SBF’s criminal fraud.
So yeah, I think the question of whether Yudkowsky is a pedophile (or “ephebophile”, to use Yudkowsky’s preferred term) does relate to EA, because his opinion seems to hold a lot of weight in this community.