“I would like to note that this is my first post on LessWrong.” I find this troubling given the nature of this post. It would have been better if this post was made by someone with a long history of posting to LessWrong, or someone writing under a real name that could be traced to a real identity. As someone very concerned with AI existential risk, I greatly worry that the movement might be discredited. I am not accusing the author of this post of engaging in improper actions.
I understand your concerns, and appreciate your note that you are not accusing me of engaging in improper actions.
Your points are valid. I do acknowledge that the circumstances under which I am making this post, as well as my various departures from objective writing—that is, the instances in this post in which I depart from {solely providing information detailing what Annie has claimed—naturally raise concerns about the motives driving my creation of this post.
I will say:
Regarding the fact that this is my first LessWrong post—I acknowledge that this is unfortunate considering the gravity of the issue which this post addresses.
Regarding my anonymity—I purposefully chose to make this post anonymously. This post discusses a very, very serious topic—the fact that Sam Altman’s sister, Annie Altman, is claiming that he has severely (e.g. sexually) abused her. If Annie’s claims turn out to be (provably) true, this would likely warrant an immediate dismissal of Sam Altman from his current position position as CEO of OpenAI, as well as from a variety of other impactful positions he currently holds. Given the gravity of this post and its potential ramifications, I chose to make this post anonymously.
While the reliability of this post does suffer for the reasons you noted, I will say that I tried to largely focus this post around information originating either directly from Annie herself or from Elizabeth Weil (who had direct communication with Annie) in way that is independent of my (understandably suspicion-inducing) identity (er, lack thereof.) I wanted this post to be centered around Annie, and what she has claimed, rather than my information-limited interpretation of her and the claims she’s made.
“I would like to note that this is my first post on LessWrong.” I find this troubling given the nature of this post. It would have been better if this post was made by someone with a long history of posting to LessWrong, or someone writing under a real name that could be traced to a real identity. As someone very concerned with AI existential risk, I greatly worry that the movement might be discredited. I am not accusing the author of this post of engaging in improper actions.
You should think less about PR and more about truth.
By “discredited” I didn’t mean receive bad but undeserved publicity. I meant operate in a way that would cause reasonable people to distrust you.
I understand your concerns, and appreciate your note that you are not accusing me of engaging in improper actions.
Your points are valid. I do acknowledge that the circumstances under which I am making this post, as well as my various departures from objective writing—that is, the instances in this post in which I depart from {solely providing information detailing what Annie has claimed—naturally raise concerns about the motives driving my creation of this post.
I will say:
Regarding the fact that this is my first LessWrong post—I acknowledge that this is unfortunate considering the gravity of the issue which this post addresses.
Regarding my anonymity—I purposefully chose to make this post anonymously. This post discusses a very, very serious topic—the fact that Sam Altman’s sister, Annie Altman, is claiming that he has severely (e.g. sexually) abused her. If Annie’s claims turn out to be (provably) true, this would likely warrant an immediate dismissal of Sam Altman from his current position position as CEO of OpenAI, as well as from a variety of other impactful positions he currently holds. Given the gravity of this post and its potential ramifications, I chose to make this post anonymously.
While the reliability of this post does suffer for the reasons you noted, I will say that I tried to largely focus this post around information originating either directly from Annie herself or from Elizabeth Weil (who had direct communication with Annie) in way that is independent of my (understandably suspicion-inducing) identity (er, lack thereof.) I wanted this post to be centered around Annie, and what she has claimed, rather than my information-limited interpretation of her and the claims she’s made.