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Hello, can confirm, criticism is like the bread and butter of LW, lol. I have very extensively criticized tons of people in the extend rationality ecosystem, and I have also never seen anyone in any leadership position react with anything like this quote. Seems totally made up.





I found Eliezer's Facebook post which OP likely was thinking of. https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/pfbid0WN6GeX8S9DK9T...

> I feel like it should have been obvious to anyone at this point that anybody who openly hates on this community generally or me personally is probably also a bad person inside and has no ethics* and will hurt you if you trust them and will break rules to do so; but in case it wasn't obvious, consider the point made explicitly.

> (Let not this post be construed as casting aspersions on any of the many, many people who've had honest disagreements with me or us, including loud or heated or long ones, that they conducted by debates about ideas rather than insinuations about people.)

Creepy. But after people argued with Eliezer for a considerable time --he made 11 updates. The result was less shockingly bad:

> There's a certain cluster of behaviors and attitudes, which includes things like "getting excited about opportunities to make fun of furries" or uttering phrases like "group X is a bunch of neckbeards". Notably, this is not the same cluster as "strongly and vocally disagreeing with group X about idea Y". Call the first cluster "frobnitz".

> I feel like it should have been obvious to anyone at this point that anybody who openly frobnitzes me, or even more so frobnitzes this community, or even more so still frobnitzes a genuine cinnamon-roll-grade Level Ten Arch-Bodhisattva like Scott Alexander or Scott Aaronson, probably lacks an internal commitment to ordinary interpersonal ethical injunctions and will hurt you if you trust them and will break rules to do so. But in case it wasn't obvious, consider the point made explicitly. (Subtext: Topher Brennan. Do not provide any link in comments to Topher's publication of private emails, explicitly marked as private, from Scott Alexander.)

If this is the only evidence-- OPs allegation is exaggerated but not 'totally made up'.


I'm pretty sure I remember a post on Eliezer's Facebook from the early 2010s. I have definitely witnessed some... well - you know, 'culty' vibes and social pressure around Less Wrong.



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