Do you have any sense of why Ziz interpreted you as saying that?
I don’t know. I think part of the conversation was about some meta-level stuff on when it’s just and fair to attack MIRI and other institutions if they do something terrible. I don’t think I remember the details, but I might have said something like “I generally think it would be bad to make up outright lies and falsehoods about a thing, and I do think that if someone is very obviously making stuff up, something like a defamation lawsuit might make sense as a kind of last resort, though I am generally quite hesitant about defamation lawsuits and think they are pretty bad for the world”.
Again, I don’t remember the details, sadly. It was over 3 years ago. But my sense is that transforming sentences like the above into sentences like the one Ziz accuses me of is how most of their “quotes” work.
I don’t know. I think part of the conversation was about some meta-level stuff on when it’s just and fair to attack MIRI and other institutions if they do something terrible. I don’t think I remember the details, but I might have said something like “I generally think it would be bad to make up outright lies and falsehoods about a thing, and I do think that if someone is very obviously making stuff up, something like a defamation lawsuit might make sense as a kind of last resort, though I am generally quite hesitant about defamation lawsuits and think they are pretty bad for the world”.
Again, I don’t remember the details, sadly. It was over 3 years ago. But my sense is that transforming sentences like the above into sentences like the one Ziz accuses me of is how most of their “quotes” work.