see, this would be How You Do It when you meet a blitheringly obvious social parasite.

compare the LW responses. [1]



People like Gleb Tsipursky leeching off our epistemically rigorous reputation and organizations linked to us, in order to gain status in the wider world.

no, he thought you were suckers, it was precisely your laughable lack of epistemic rigour that made you look like a lollipop in a bugs bunny cartoon.

[2]



I used to be happy with this outcome. But now I’m worried about our treatment of Gleb. At first I felt good that we’d identified and sort-of-expelled a bad actor, even if I was annoyed with some people for what I thought was extremely obsessive give-him-another-chance-ism. But I’m not so sure Gleb wasn’t just sincerely emulating the endorsed behavior and ideals of respected community leaders. Maybe the reason I don’t see similarly outrageous behavior among other EA organizations – except the few moments where the curtain slips, like above – is because I accept them as authorities. Maybe Gleb’s crime was not that he was dishonest, but that he was dishonest in poor taste.

no, he was an obvious bad faith spammer. how are you able to be online and be this unable to spot a blatantly exploitative marketing initiative.

[3] the whole thing. great assemblage of data, but how are you this unable to spot someone acting in bad faith, and how can it take you literally months.



[4]

For example, internally we discussed whether we should ban Gleb from the EA Forum, which we help to run, for a three-month period. I think that this response would easily be warranted in light of Intentional Insights’ activities. But, for me, that proposal rang alarm bells of overreach: the EA Forum seems to me to be a community good, and it seems to me that CEA doesn’t have the legitimacy to take that action. But, unfortunately, neither does anyone else.

just fucking what. every time you feel yourself entering this mode of thought, it’s the universe telling you to buy another mosquito net ok.

i don’t want to seem unduly cruel. (just duly cruel.) but how on earth. how.

