William Gillis 🏴Feb 23, 2025

re the zizian "death cult" thing:

My priors are that abuse is super common and my heuristics are that accusations are usually onto something so believe accusations of abuse. Thus when folks say that CFAR covered up widespread sexual abuse in rationalist circles, I'm like yeah, sure, makes total sense. And when folks say this Ziz person ran an abusive sleep deprivation cult, I'm like yeah, sure, makes total sense. That doesn't mean assigning absolute credence, but like, it's all a good bet.

Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴Feb 23, 2025

Anyway, I've been vaguely aware that there was a protest of the Center For Applied Rationality (an org I have vaguely positive feelings towards, probably mostly because I don't deal with them) over sexual abuse coverups and that said lib rationalists freaked out and called the cops and got super huffy about it.

I was not really aware of this "Ziz" person at all, but any rationalist into anarchism is gonna know who I am, so it's unremarkable that she referenced and talked shit about me:

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@rechelon
"I bet he hasn't killed anyone - he must be insincere" says a lot more about the person talking shit than the person about whom the shit is being talked
Feb 24, 2025 at 4:42amWeb