My own experience is somewhat like Linch’s here, where mostly I’m vaguely aware of some things that aren’t my story to tell.
For most of the past 9ish years I’d found Leverage “weird/sometimes-offputting, but not obviously moreso than other rationality orgs.” I have gotten personal value out of the Leverage suite of memes and techniques (Belief Reporting was a particularly valuable thing to have in my toolkit).
I’ve received one bit of secondhand info about “An ex-leverage employee (not Zoe) had an experience that seemed reasonable to describe as ‘the bad kind of cult that was actually harmful’.” I was told this as part of a decisionmaking process where it seemed relevant, and asked not to share it further in the past couple years. I think it makes sense to share this much meta-data in this context.
My own experience is somewhat like Linch’s here, where mostly I’m vaguely aware of some things that aren’t my story to tell.
For most of the past 9ish years I’d found Leverage “weird/sometimes-offputting, but not obviously moreso than other rationality orgs.” I have gotten personal value out of the Leverage suite of memes and techniques (Belief Reporting was a particularly valuable thing to have in my toolkit).
I’ve received one bit of secondhand info about “An ex-leverage employee (not Zoe) had an experience that seemed reasonable to describe as ‘the bad kind of cult that was actually harmful’.” I was told this as part of a decisionmaking process where it seemed relevant, and asked not to share it further in the past couple years. I think it makes sense to share this much meta-data in this context.