It’s still ad-hominem to bring it up as an argument, and probably counterproductive to try and follow the guy around bringing up his mistakes everywhere he goes. Unless he is doing something directly connected with those criticisms.
Those criticisms are extremely relevant here. We aren’t having an abstract debate about rationality in politics, we are commenting on a post which announced a new project led by Gleb Tsipursky to try to bring rationality to politics. If you want to predict what this project is likely to end up doing, or how successful it will be, then one of the most relevant pieces of information that you have is Gleb’s track record.
I agree that for the vast majority of cases stick to the object level rather than the psychology. But in this particular case, see this about Gleb and his organisation (detailing his dubious ethical practices and general misinformation): http://effective-altruism.com/ea/12z/concerns_with_intentional_insights/
It’s still ad-hominem to bring it up as an argument, and probably counterproductive to try and follow the guy around bringing up his mistakes everywhere he goes. Unless he is doing something directly connected with those criticisms.
Those criticisms are extremely relevant here. We aren’t having an abstract debate about rationality in politics, we are commenting on a post which announced a new project led by Gleb Tsipursky to try to bring rationality to politics. If you want to predict what this project is likely to end up doing, or how successful it will be, then one of the most relevant pieces of information that you have is Gleb’s track record.
This seems perfectly legitimate to post as a top level comment.
EDIT: though you will notice that the criticism by Jeff Kaufman, Gregory Lewis, Oliver Habryka, Carl Shulman, and Claire Zabel is very measured and I don’t see any insults or even any judgements about Gleb as a person in there. I would take a leaf out of their book.