Drama

TagLast edit: 19 Jan 2024 13:55 UTC by habryka

For posts documenting and/or responding to drama or scandals within the rationalist community and beyond.

See also

Reliable Sources: The Story of David Gerard

TracingWoodgrains10 Jul 2024 19:50 UTC

381 points

53 comments43 min readLW link

Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading Claims

KatWoods12 Dec 2023 13:16 UTC

104 points

171 comments1 min readLW link

Sharing Information About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC

322 points

323 comments34 min readLW link

My experience at and around MIRI and CFAR (inspired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of experiences at Leverage)

jessicata16 Oct 2021 21:28 UTC

84 points

949 comments22 min readLW link

OpenAI: The Battle of the Board

Zvi22 Nov 2023 17:30 UTC

281 points

83 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Link] A community alert about Ziz

DanielFilan24 Feb 2023 0:06 UTC

163 points

126 comments2 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Sadly, FTX

Zvi17 Nov 2022 14:30 UTC

133 points

18 comments47 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A quick update from Nonlinear

KatWoods7 Sep 2023 21:28 UTC

72 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

Zvi20 Nov 2023 15:30 UTC

271 points

165 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem

Elizabeth28 Sep 2023 23:30 UTC

317 points

247 comments22 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

The FTX Saga—Simplified

Annapurna16 Nov 2022 2:42 UTC

44 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

Closing Notes on Nonlinear Investigation

Ben Pace15 Sep 2023 22:44 UTC

97 points

47 comments11 min readLW link

Against Nonlinear (Thing Of Things)

tailcalled18 Jan 2024 21:40 UTC

58 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(thingofthings.substack.com)

Zoe Curzi’s Experience with Leverage Research

Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive13 Oct 2021 4:44 UTC

229 points

261 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Based Beff Jezos and the Accelerationists

Zvi6 Dec 2023 16:00 UTC

89 points

29 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sam Altman’s sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her

prometheus50157 Oct 2023 21:06 UTC

98 points

107 comments180 min readLW link

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

LawrenceC17 Nov 2023 20:42 UTC

192 points

75 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Common knowledge about Leverage Research 1.0

BayAreaHuman24 Sep 2021 6:56 UTC

206 points

212 comments5 min readLW link

Practically A Book Review: Appendix to “Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading Claims” (ThingOfThings)

tailcalled3 Jan 2024 17:07 UTC

111 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

(thingofthings.substack.com)

Effective Aspersions: How the Nonlinear Investigation Went Wrong

TracingWoodgrains19 Dec 2023 12:00 UTC

175 points

170 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI Staff (including Sutskever) Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns

Seth Herd20 Nov 2023 14:20 UTC

52 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

(www.wired.com)

Rationalist Town Hall: FTX Fallout Edition (RSVP Required)

Ben Pace23 Nov 2022 1:38 UTC

43 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

A Girardian interpretation of the Altman affair, it’s on my to-do list

Bill Benzon20 Nov 2023 12:21 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

FTX will probably be sold at a steep discount. What we know and some forecasts on what will happen next

Nathan Young9 Nov 2022 2:14 UTC

60 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Related Discussion from Thomas Kwa’s MIRI Research Experience

Raemon7 Oct 2023 6:25 UTC

71 points

140 comments1 min readLW link

Sense-making around the FTX catastrophe: a deep dive podcast episode we just released

spencerg30 Nov 2022 1:54 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Occupational Infohazards

jessicata18 Dec 2021 20:56 UTC

35 points

134 comments47 min readLW link

Noting an unsubstantiated communal belief about the FTX disaster

Yitz13 Nov 2022 5:37 UTC

50 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

Austin LW meetup notes: The FTX Affair

jchan22 Nov 2022 14:01 UTC

20 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

the gears to ascension 19 Jan 2024 8:58 UTC
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this tag is probably not a good idea because news people might use it unconstructively, but if it exists it should at least invite them to say they did that imo