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Open Thread, Aug. 22 - 28, 2016 — LessWrong

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Open Thread, Aug. 22 - 28, 2016

by polymathwannabe

22nd Aug 2016

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NancyLebovitz10y160

I'm curious about why this got downvoted, if anyone would like to explain.

Fluttershy10y60

There was a lengthy and informative discussion of why many EA/LW/diaspora folks don't like Gleb's work on Facebook last week. I found both Owen Cotton-Barratt's mention of the unilateralist's curse, and Oliver Habryka's statement that people dislike what Gleb is doing largely because of how much he's done to associate himself with rationality and EA, to be informative and tactful.

10Lumifer10y

Because it's a link to a godawful clickbait piece-of-crap writing that has no relationship to LW, a sprinkling of related terms notwithstanding. Just because Gleb has an account here doesn't mean this is a good place to post about his excursions into the slime pools of 'net pseudo-journalism.