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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.
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.)
A bit of googling would point to Ella being a Filipino girl with a FB and a Twitter account.
Noted. Probability estimate duly nudged downward. (And Pr(meatpuppet) increased just a little.)
Yup, Ella is from Albay in the Phillipines. She is an aspiring rationalist who was introduced to Less Wrong through Intentional Insights content.
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.