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Rationalist posts detailed catalogue of confirmed bad behaviour by EA/rationalist org Nonlinear. Second rationalist goes meta on first post: how can we even know anything, it's so unfair to Nonlinear (awful.systems)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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original post detailing mistreatment of employees
meta post about how a good rationalist should correctly epistemically assess the fairness of the post cataloguing and confirming the bad behaviour

tl;dr these fucking guys

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Was it just me or did OG's post use the epistemic status not as an epistemic status but as a way to frame how you should feel about the things?+more non epistemic things?

E: What "she was being paid the equivalent of $75k[1] per year (only $1k/month, the rest via room and board)" 62k for room and board? "The staff they hire are either remote, or live in the house with them." for living with your boss? Wtf is wrong with those people. While also making romantic references to their employees. There were doing indentured servitude ffs. They should get lawyers.

I did not expect a 'we tried to get our indentured sex servants to smuggle drugs for us' story to drop.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Epistemic status:" is such a pompous thing to say that it is automatically a head start on a joke setup. Possible completions include but are not limited to the following:

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue
Jackin' at the speed of light (sung to the tune of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now")
Yippie ki yay, Mister Falcon

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$75k pa, but $63k is in room, board and fucking the boss

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They got a vacation month right? Right?

(Later in the article it was mentioned that even the 1k per month wasn't paid).

"Over the 8 months she was there Alice claims she received no salary for the first 5 months, then (roughly) $1k/month salary for 2 months, and then after she quit she received a ~$6k one-off salary payment (from the funds allocated for her incubated organization). She also had a substantial number of emergency health issues covered. [there is a footnote here mentioning there was no contract which ... anyway poor quokkas (yes im stealing that concept from the fascists, suck it nerdiest lovecraft cosplayer)]"

Also TIL that the custom 'we should be rational and clear and bla bla bla bla' software ran by the LWosphere doesn't allow people to see that and how a post was edited. Bit weird.