Instead, what I’d be curious to know is whether they have the integrity to be proactively transparent about past mistakes, radically changed course when it comes to potentially harmful practices, and refrain from using any potentially harmful practices in cases where it might be advantageous on a Machiavellian-consequentialist assessment.
I think skepticism about nice words without difficult-to-fake evidence is warranted, but I also think some of this evidence is already available.
For example, I think it’s relatively easy to verify that Leverage is a radically different organization today. The costly investments we’ve made in history of science research provide the clearest example as does the fact that we’re no longer pursuing any new psychological research.
I think the fact that it is now a four person remote organization doing mostly research on science as opposed to an often-live-in organization with dozens of employees doing intimate psychological experiments as well as following various research paths tells me that you are essentially a different organization and the only commonalities are the name and the fact that Geoff is still the leader.
I think skepticism about nice words without difficult-to-fake evidence is warranted, but I also think some of this evidence is already available.
For example, I think it’s relatively easy to verify that Leverage is a radically different organization today. The costly investments we’ve made in history of science research provide the clearest example as does the fact that we’re no longer pursuing any new psychological research.
I think the fact that it is now a four person remote organization doing mostly research on science as opposed to an often-live-in organization with dozens of employees doing intimate psychological experiments as well as following various research paths tells me that you are essentially a different organization and the only commonalities are the name and the fact that Geoff is still the leader.