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

[Wei Dai]

(Interestingly, he actually replied in that thread even though I didn’t mention him by name.)

Oh, this is because the OP that I was replying to did mention him by name:

One of the things that makes Michael Vassar an interesting person to be around is that he has an opinion about everything. If you locked him up in an empty room with grey walls, it would probably take the man about thirty seconds before he’d start analyzing the historical influence of the Enlightenment on the tradition of locking people up in empty rooms with grey walls.