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well if we're judging people negatively based on bad vibes, then I can think of a few people who might be higher up in the firing line (like 95% of "EA leadership")
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AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
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* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
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For what it's worth, I can't understand the examples in this post at all, absent more explanation. Though I suspect plenty of people who use the forum can, and it might not be worth the extra effort to make it intelligible to everyone.
I think that if you want to make allegations and point noses into a certain direction, it is really important to make your point clear and argue in good faith. This post fails both boxes in my book.