LW writing converges on Deathnote fanfic.
Evinceo
joined 2 years ago
Isn't that a mangled L Ron Hubbard quote?
I'll remember that next time a TREACLES tires to explain how something that totally discredits rationalists has nothing to do with EA.
Ok, I've spent way too much time on this, but read the "Sharing Information on Ben Pace" section. As some of the comments point out, it could be written about Kat's own reaction to the earlier article.
Whenever I see that they're updating their opinions I imagine that's where the micro dosing comes in.
Fooling EAs is a lot easier and less risky than fooling the IRS.
This is a 60 minute post. Nobody proofread this. They're hoping few people will read the whole thing, and they're probably right.
Think of how many souls could have been saved if you didn't waste the church's time investigating all those abusive priests! Truly the investigators are sinners on a staggering scale!
It almost reads as a threat... 'don't stop our gravy train, or we'll lash out and reveal what we know!'
I wish you were joking but they literally say this in the post:
At that hourly rate, he spent perhaps ~$130,000 of Lightcone donors’ money on [investigating us]. But it’s more than that. When you factor in our time, plus hundreds/thousands of comments across all the posts, it’s plausible Ben’s negligence cost EA millions of dollars of lost productivity. If his accusations were true, that could have potentially been a worthwhile use of time - it's just that they aren't, and so that productivity is actually destroyed. [...]
Even if it was just $1 million, that wipes out the yearly contribution of 200 hardworking earn-to-givers who sacrificed, scrimped and saved to donate $5,000 this year.
Also this:
Have you ever made a social gaff? Does the idea of somebody exclusively looking for and publishing negative things about you make you feel uneasy? Terrified?
(spooky hands)
I actually played this game with some of my friends to see how easy it was. I tried to say only true things but in a way that made them look like villains. It was terrifyingly easy. Even for one of my oldest friends, who is one of the more universally-liked EAs, I could make him sound like a terrifying creep.
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I could do this for any EA org. I know of so many conflicts in EA that if somebody pulled a Ben Pace on, it would explode in a similar fashion.
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Fandom/wikia, Pinterest, and similar SEO spam sites basically crowdsourced this.