Gleb, given the recent criticisms of your work on the EA forum, it would be better for your mental health, and less wasteful of our time, if you stopped posting this sort of thing here. Please do take care of yourself, but don’t expect the average rationalist to be more sympathetic to you than the average EA.
Great article Gleb! You are the best writer of a rationalism and I will buy all your best selling book to be better at life! I will tell my friends of you on all the social medias! Many of thnaks to you and InIn for the saving of my life!
There’s a lot of cringe-y stuff in the link. But Gleb seems like a nice guy to me. Probably overly ambitious about trying to complete whatever mission he sees himself as trying to complete (and probably a bit too anxious to grow his status), and therefore willing to stoop to do some exaggerating and weird quasi-unethical stuff online to get it done… but he seems pretty harmless for the amount of ire he always draws on here.
Writing is hard and he writes some nice entry-level rationality stuff that would be novel to some huge chunk of the population that will never give a damn about lesswrong or any other rationality blog.
Maybe I’m overestimating how mean people around here have been to Gleb. I know there have been some positive things said about him as well. If his treatment’s been fair and I’m way off, cool. My bad. But I imagine a universe where he’d been embraced by LW and, for instance, asked to help work a project creating an ELI5 version of the sequences for mass consumption...and I think that is a better universe than this one.
Gleb, given the recent criticisms of your work on the EA forum, it would be better for your mental health, and less wasteful of our time, if you stopped posting this sort of thing here. Please do take care of yourself, but don’t expect the average rationalist to be more sympathetic to you than the average EA.
Ha.
Great article Gleb! You are the best writer of a rationalism and I will buy all your best selling book to be better at life! I will tell my friends of you on all the social medias! Many of thnaks to you and InIn for the saving of my life!
There’s a lot of cringe-y stuff in the link. But Gleb seems like a nice guy to me. Probably overly ambitious about trying to complete whatever mission he sees himself as trying to complete (and probably a bit too anxious to grow his status), and therefore willing to stoop to do some exaggerating and weird quasi-unethical stuff online to get it done… but he seems pretty harmless for the amount of ire he always draws on here.
Writing is hard and he writes some nice entry-level rationality stuff that would be novel to some huge chunk of the population that will never give a damn about lesswrong or any other rationality blog.
Maybe I’m overestimating how mean people around here have been to Gleb. I know there have been some positive things said about him as well. If his treatment’s been fair and I’m way off, cool. My bad. But I imagine a universe where he’d been embraced by LW and, for instance, asked to help work a project creating an ELI5 version of the sequences for mass consumption...and I think that is a better universe than this one.
Oh, boy, Gleb seems to have really pissed off some very polite people X-)
I don’t see anything in that link that is relevant to this post.