I am referring to the “intention research” here. I assume it was originally meant to be a weapon against outsiders, but it backfired, as different groups within Leverage started using it against each other.
The point of intention research is not being a weapon. I expect that most of the problem was about people using it to do coaching interventions with other people without consent that were intended for the own good of the other person.
Another aspect is that people went through processes that made them more sensitive and thus more vulnerable in an attempt to increase their perceptive abilities to be better at the field.
A third problem is that it gets people to believe that they can accurately mind read other people which then leads to all sorts of people when it turns out that their mind reading isn’t fully accurate.
The poison was so strong, that it was easier for Geoff to just burn down the whole thing, erase the website, change the organization name, and start again with new members somewhere else, where hopefully his previous reputation would not follow him.
There’s no name change of the organization. It’s still Leverage Research.
Then at some moment I realized that the only reason I believe that Leverage is doing something useful, is because Leverage told me so, without providing any tangible evidence.
Belief Reporting is useful and I think you were regularly at the LessWrong Community Weekend, so you could have attended the one workshop (from someone who wasn’t itself at Leverage but who was at one of the Leverage workshops).
Belief Reporting is useful and I think you were regularly at the LessWrong Community Weekend, so you could have attended the one workshop (from someone who wasn’t itself at Leverage but who was at one of the Leverage workshops).
I think I was at one LW Community Weekend in Berlin, at least six years ago, and I no longer remember most of what happened there, so I can neither confirm nor deny this.
The point of intention research is not being a weapon. I expect that most of the problem was about people using it to do coaching interventions with other people without consent that were intended for the own good of the other person.
Another aspect is that people went through processes that made them more sensitive and thus more vulnerable in an attempt to increase their perceptive abilities to be better at the field.
A third problem is that it gets people to believe that they can accurately mind read other people which then leads to all sorts of people when it turns out that their mind reading isn’t fully accurate.
There’s no name change of the organization. It’s still Leverage Research.
Belief Reporting is useful and I think you were regularly at the LessWrong Community Weekend, so you could have attended the one workshop (from someone who wasn’t itself at Leverage but who was at one of the Leverage workshops).
I think I was at one LW Community Weekend in Berlin, at least six years ago, and I no longer remember most of what happened there, so I can neither confirm nor deny this.