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Comment author: Lumifer 16 November 2015 10:00:33PM 1 point [-]

I'll save all y'all the trouble and directly quote the relevant part:

I found this tool on International Insights . This tool is developed by Dr Gleb Tsipursky.

Comment author: gjm 17 November 2015 04:52:49PM 3 points [-]

Links to that website have been spammed onto LW before. I am becoming more and more sympathetic to OrphanWilde's comments on Gleb's recent thread. (Apropos of which, I don't think I'd have thought "Ella" was terribly suspicious until I read Gleb's comment defending her, after which I now reckon Pr(sockpuppet) ~= 0.75. My apologies, Ella, if you happen to be reading this and are not in fact a sockpuppet.)

Though ... I wonder about this. Comment-spamming LW with this sort of thing seems like such a tone-deaf thing to do, and doing it twice so super-extra-tone-deaf, that I'm wondering about more exotic explanations. Some third party who has a grudge against Gleb and wants to give his outfit a bad name? A more general comment-spamming campaign executed by someone who didn't know that LW would be a bad choice of place to post comment spam? I dunno.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 17 November 2015 05:16:53PM 2 points [-]

The thing that is driving me crazy WRT Gleb is exactly the tone-deafness. It's not just bad, it's bizarro-world bad, to the point where it feels like it's that bad on purpose only I can't imagine any possible purpose. That's the "recursive" aspect to the weirdness.

(I actually came across iamhappy in my search of his posts for other Ella-like accounts, as opposed to in the recent comments; I didn't see an immediate connection, so I dismissed it as a spambot, and didn't initially notice the spam was new. There were two other Ella-like accounts, not including iamhappy.)

Comment author: Lumifer 17 November 2015 05:35:21PM 1 point [-]

I now reckon Pr(sockpuppet) ~= 0.75

A bit of googling would point to Ella being a Filipino girl with a FB and a Twitter account.

Comment author: gjm 17 November 2015 10:10:53PM 0 points [-]

Noted. Probability estimate duly nudged downward. (And Pr(meatpuppet) increased just a little.)

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 17 November 2015 07:53:03PM -1 points [-]

Yup, Ella is from Albay in the Phillipines. She is an aspiring rationalist who was introduced to Less Wrong through Intentional Insights content.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 17 November 2015 07:45:00PM -1 points [-]

Yikes, just discovered these comments. Not sure what's going on there. I pointed out above that while I appreciate that person liking the MPQ, it's not appropriate to post these here in this spammy manner.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 17 November 2015 07:48:19PM -1 points [-]

As I said below, just discovered these. Not my work at all. Sorry to see these spammy comments.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 17 November 2015 07:41:35PM -1 points [-]

I really appreciate your support, but please stop these posts, whoever you are, as you are creating a bad impression of Intentional Insights through posting these multiple comments. Thanks!

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