Evinceo

I slogged through the article so you don't have to.

Basically, there's a trio of very strange dotcom-wealthy folks who call themselves 'nonlinear' but really they're a guy, his brother, and his partner. They claim to be doing 'important work' and hire/defraud interns who live in their house, clean up their messes and get groceries for them, drive without a license for them, score drugs for them and traffic the drugs across borders. Also they isolate them from their families and friends, and have sex with them. This is considered inside the Overton window in the EA community, evidenced by the lack of pushback and the fact that this trio has not been run out of EA on a rail.

Does that help?

Buried in a mountain of polite disclaimers and faux intellectual humility, we have this absolutely damning information which could have been the whole article:

Alice was polyamorous, and she and Drew entered into a casual romantic relationship. Kat previously had a polyamorous marriage that ended in divorce, and is now monogamously partnered with Emerson. Kat reportedly told Alice that she didn't mind polyamory "on the other side of the world”, but couldn't stand it right next to her, and probably either Alice would need to become monogamous or Alice should leave the organization.

This Drew character was fucking the intern? No mention of any sort of ethical entanglement regarding having casual sex with your live-in employee. Think of the utilitons you save by hiring a maid/grocery getter to have sex with instead of wasting your valuable genius-minutes actually dating.

The lack of commentary regarding it (there's one sitting at -15 that points out the obvious) makes me wonder if this sort of thing is the norm in EA circles.

Good rabbit hole. This guy saw Stallman dressed as St Ignutious singing 'You'll be free hackers you'll be free' and went 'yes, that is exactly who I want to be, feed me the toe cheese'

Ok, I got a chunk of the way through it, they're running it less like a nonprofit and more like the fucking mansion family, what a horror show.

Alice and Chloe report that they were advised not to spend time with ‘low value people’, including their families, romantic partners, and anyone local to where they were staying, with the exception of guests/visitors that Nonlinear invited. Alice and Chloe report this made them very socially dependent on Kat/Emerson/Drew and otherwise very isolated.

Like if this was a journalist piece the first paragraph would contain 'cult' and it would relate this example, not make me wade through an entire section about his sit down interview with a Member Of The Family.

Also what the fuck kind of brainworm metastatization is happening in this guy's... comment policy?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hhbibJGt2aQqKJLb7/lc-s-shortform?commentId=gC5JD9wkgaR3ueS97

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If romans liked the colosseum so much how come gladiators were slaves?

Jesus Christ trying to read this is like climbing K2 except instead of snow it's neologisms. Is there anything interesting buried in there?

I only read the intro bit and I had complaints, looked at the scrollbar, felt despair and then I realized nobody is forcing me to read all this, I could just stop.

Average experience reading a LW article

trying to solve climate change from within Exxon Mobil

Cap the wells, scrap the equipment, fuck the shareholders. Every day they make the deliberate decision not to do that, and dig us deeper into this mess.

You can outrun a cop but you can't outrun a ~~radio~~ extradition treaty.

404 really gunning for household name status. I hope they can sustain this level of effort, the space really needs journalism like this.