One piece of information that’s missing is why you used two throwaway accounts instead of one (and in particular, why you used one to reply to the other one, as alleged by Kerry Vaughan in https://twitter.com/KerryLVaughan/status/1585319243985424384 ). Can you tell me about your reasoning behind that decision?
(If that matters, I am not affiliated with any Leverage-adjacent org and I am not a throwaway account for a different EA Forum user.)
In the early stages, I had in mind that the more info any individual anon-account revealed, the more easily one could infer what time they spent at Leverage, and therefore their identity. So while I don’t know for certain, I would guess that I created anonymoose to disperse this info across two accounts.
When I commented on the Basic Facts post as anonymoose, It was not my intent to contrive a fake conversation between two entities with separate voices. I think this is pretty clear from anonymoose’s comment, too—it’s in the same bulleted and dry format that throwaway uses, so it’s an immediate possibility that throwaway and anonymoose are one and the same. I don’t know why I used anonymoose there. Maybe due to carelessness, or maybe because I lost access to throwaway. (I know that at one time, an update to the forum login interface did rob me of access to my anon-account, but not sure if this was when that happened).
Hi! In the past few months I’ve been participating in Leverage Research/EA discourse on Twitter. Now there is one Twitter thread discussing your involvement as throwaway/anonymoose: https://twitter.com/KerryLVaughan/status/1585319237018681344 (with a subthread starting at https://twitter.com/ohabryka/status/1586084766020820992 discussing anti-doxxing norms and linking back to EA Forum comments).
One piece of information that’s missing is why you used two throwaway accounts instead of one (and in particular, why you used one to reply to the other one, as alleged by Kerry Vaughan in https://twitter.com/KerryLVaughan/status/1585319243985424384 ). Can you tell me about your reasoning behind that decision?
(If that matters, I am not affiliated with any Leverage-adjacent org and I am not a throwaway account for a different EA Forum user.)
Hi Orellanin,
In the early stages, I had in mind that the more info any individual anon-account revealed, the more easily one could infer what time they spent at Leverage, and therefore their identity. So while I don’t know for certain, I would guess that I created anonymoose to disperse this info across two accounts.
When I commented on the Basic Facts post as anonymoose, It was not my intent to contrive a fake conversation between two entities with separate voices. I think this is pretty clear from anonymoose’s comment, too—it’s in the same bulleted and dry format that throwaway uses, so it’s an immediate possibility that throwaway and anonymoose are one and the same. I don’t know why I used anonymoose there. Maybe due to carelessness, or maybe because I lost access to throwaway. (I know that at one time, an update to the forum login interface did rob me of access to my anon-account, but not sure if this was when that happened).