philh comments on My experience at and around MIRI and CFAR (inspired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of experiences at Leverage)

[philh]

I believe the idea was not that this was an act of frobnitzing, but that

• Topher is someone who openly frobnitzes.

• Now he’s done this, which is bad.

• It is unsurprising that someone who openly frobnitzes does other bad things too.