you publicly describe your suffering as a way to show people that MIRI/CFAR is evil.
Could you expand more on this? E.g. what are a couple sentences in the post that seem most trying to show this.
Because it seems like you call it bad when you attribute it to MIRI/CFAR, but when other people suggest that Vassar was responsible, then it seems a bit like no big deal, definitely not anything to blame him for.
I appreciate the thrust of your comment, including this sentence, but also this sentence seems uncharitable, like it’s collapsing down stuff that shouldn’t be collapsed. For example, it could be that the MIRI/CFAR/etc. social field could set up (maybe by accident, or even due to no fault of any of the “central” people) the conditions where “psychosis” is the best of the bad available options; in which case it makes sense to attribute causal fault to the social field, not to a person who e.g. makes that clear to you, and therefore more proximal causes your breakdown. (Of course there’s disagreement about whether that’s the state of the world, but it’s not necessarily incoherent.)
I do get the sense that jessicata is relating in a funny way to Michael Vassar, e.g. by warping the narrative around him while selectively posing as “just trying to state facts” in relation to other narrative fields; but this is hard to tell, since it’s also what it might look like if Michael Vassar was systematically scapegoated, and jessicata is reporting more direct/accurate (hence less bad-seeming) observations.
Could you expand more on this? E.g. what are a couple sentences in the post that seem most trying to show this.
I appreciate the thrust of your comment, including this sentence, but also this sentence seems uncharitable, like it’s collapsing down stuff that shouldn’t be collapsed. For example, it could be that the MIRI/CFAR/etc. social field could set up (maybe by accident, or even due to no fault of any of the “central” people) the conditions where “psychosis” is the best of the bad available options; in which case it makes sense to attribute causal fault to the social field, not to a person who e.g. makes that clear to you, and therefore more proximal causes your breakdown. (Of course there’s disagreement about whether that’s the state of the world, but it’s not necessarily incoherent.)
I do get the sense that jessicata is relating in a funny way to Michael Vassar, e.g. by warping the narrative around him while selectively posing as “just trying to state facts” in relation to other narrative fields; but this is hard to tell, since it’s also what it might look like if Michael Vassar was systematically scapegoated, and jessicata is reporting more direct/accurate (hence less bad-seeming) observations.