It’s obviously not defamation since Ziz believes its true.
We’re veering dangerously close into dramaposting here, but just FYI habyka has already contested that they ever said this. I would like to know if the ban accusations are true, though.
Can confirm that I don’t believe I said anything about defamation, and in general continue to think that libel suits are really quite bad and do not think they are an appropriate tool in almost any circumstance.
I don’t think we ever took any other moderation action, though I would likely ban then again, since like, I really don’t want them around on LessWrong and they have far surpassed thresholds for acceptable behavior.
I would not ban anyone writing up details of the miricult stuff (including false accusations, and relatively strong emotions). Indeed somewhat recently I wrote like 3-5 pages of content here on a private Facebook thread with a lot of rationality community people on it. I would be up for someone extracting the parts that seem shareable more broadly. Seems good to finally have something more central and public.
We’re veering dangerously close into dramaposting here, but just FYI habyka has already contested that they ever said this. I would like to know if the ban accusations are true, though.
Can confirm that I don’t believe I said anything about defamation, and in general continue to think that libel suits are really quite bad and do not think they are an appropriate tool in almost any circumstance.
We banned some of them for three months when they kept spamming the CFAR AMA a while ago: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/96N8BT9tJvybLbn5z/we-run-the-center-for-applied-rationality-ama?commentId=5W86zzFy48WiLcSg6
I don’t think we ever took any other moderation action, though I would likely ban then again, since like, I really don’t want them around on LessWrong and they have far surpassed thresholds for acceptable behavior.
I would not ban anyone writing up details of the miricult stuff (including false accusations, and relatively strong emotions). Indeed somewhat recently I wrote like 3-5 pages of content here on a private Facebook thread with a lot of rationality community people on it. I would be up for someone extracting the parts that seem shareable more broadly. Seems good to finally have something more central and public.