Much of why my priors say that the e/acc thing is organic is just my gestalt impression of being on Twitter while it was happening. Unfortunately, that’s not a legible source of evidence to people-who-aren’t-me. I’ll tell you what information I do remember, though:
“Bitalik Vuterin” does not ring a bell, I don’t think he was a very consequential figure to begin with.
@BasedBeffJezos claims to be the same person as @BasedBeff, and claims that he was locked out of his @BasedBeff account on 2022-08-08 due to “misinformation”, which he attributes to “blue checkmarks and scared EAs”.
I’m only like 85% certain about this claim, but I think @bayeslord made an “I quit” thread where he claimed that he was actually kinda sympathetic to EA all along, and e/acc was more of a joke, or maybe that it was actually meant to strengthen EA by red-teaming it. I’m even less certain about this next claim (~55%), but I think he mentioned getting an overwhelming amount of DMs from EAs trying to debate him.
Much of why my priors say that the e/acc thing is organic is just my gestalt impression of being on Twitter while it was happening. Unfortunately, that’s not a legible source of evidence to people-who-aren’t-me. I’ll tell you what information I do remember, though:
“Bitalik Vuterin” does not ring a bell, I don’t think he was a very consequential figure to begin with.
@BasedBeffJezos claims to be the same person as @BasedBeff, and claims that he was locked out of his @BasedBeff account on 2022-08-08 due to “misinformation”, which he attributes to “blue checkmarks and scared EAs”.
I’m only like 85% certain about this claim, but I think @bayeslord made an “I quit” thread where he claimed that he was actually kinda sympathetic to EA all along, and e/acc was more of a joke, or maybe that it was actually meant to strengthen EA by red-teaming it. I’m even less certain about this next claim (~55%), but I think he mentioned getting an overwhelming amount of DMs from EAs trying to debate him.
I think it was something else like that, not that.