You absolutely have a reason to believe the article is worth reading.
If you live coordinated with an institution, spending 5 minutes of actually trying (every few months) to see if that institution is corrupt is a worthy use of time.
I don’t think I live coordinated with CFAR or MIRI, but it is true that, if they are corrupt, this is something I would like to know.
However, that’s not sufficient reason to think the article is worth reading. There are many articles making claims that, if true, I would very much like to know (e.g. someone arguing that the Christian Hell exists).
I think the policy I follow (although I hadn’t made it explicit until now) is to ignore claims like this by default but listen up as soon as I have some reason to believe that the source is credible.
Which incidentally was the case for the OP. I have spent a lot more than 5 minutes reading it & replies, and I have, in fact, updated on my view of CRAF and Miri. It wasn’t a massive update in the end, but it also wasn’t negligible. I also haven’t downvoted the OP, and I believe I also haven’t downvoted any comments from jessicata. I’ve upvoted some.
You absolutely have a reason to believe the article is worth reading.
If you live coordinated with an institution, spending 5 minutes of actually trying (every few months) to see if that institution is corrupt is a worthy use of time.
I read the linked article, and my conclusion is that it’s not even in the neighborhood of “worth reading”.
I don’t think I live coordinated with CFAR or MIRI, but it is true that, if they are corrupt, this is something I would like to know.
However, that’s not sufficient reason to think the article is worth reading. There are many articles making claims that, if true, I would very much like to know (e.g. someone arguing that the Christian Hell exists).
I think the policy I follow (although I hadn’t made it explicit until now) is to ignore claims like this by default but listen up as soon as I have some reason to believe that the source is credible.
Which incidentally was the case for the OP. I have spent a lot more than 5 minutes reading it & replies, and I have, in fact, updated on my view of CRAF and Miri. It wasn’t a massive update in the end, but it also wasn’t negligible. I also haven’t downvoted the OP, and I believe I also haven’t downvoted any comments from jessicata. I’ve upvoted some.
This is fair, actually.