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I am not any person named in the linked page, though I have met some or all of them. I am not affiliated with MIRI in any way. I did not post the linked page and I do not know who did.

The linked page is obvious slander. But its creation is a serious matter; the author is threatening to manufacture evidence. Thus, it should be handled the same way as a death threat: with an investigation to determine who sent it. The site is hosted on EasyWeb; the domain name admin contact details point to a proxy called myprivacy.net, but the author is not very technically sophisticated (the page was authored in MS Word) so an appropriate subpoena might suffice to identify them.

Also, Mendes & Mount might want to make a public statement as to whether or not they represent MIRI. The page mentions them by name, but they're located in the wrong state (New York) and none of the practice areas listed on their web page are relevant.

I have removed the link in this post. If it reappears, please let me know and I'll ban the post entirely.

The linked article constitutes libel and unless and until proof is provided this post should be removed. If everything stated in the linked article were true only an MIRI insider would know it, which cuts against the conspiracy thesis. For my book Singularity Rising I talked to a lot of people about Eliezer and his organization and no one, not even the people who had a low opinion of Eliezer, even hinted at what's suggested in the article. I find it almost inconceivable that what's going on in the linked article is true and yet Peter Thiel, a man likely to play a big role in the next U.S. Presidential election, still associates with and gives money to MIRI.

WilliamJames, would you care to explain why you find these "revelations" credible? (Or, if you posted this as a joke, why you find it amusing?)

This is the most ludicrous slander I have ever read. I also have no idea what the point is supposed to be. It's not funny, it's not remotely believable, it doesn't seem to be making any kind of larger point, and it looks like a really slapdash job anyway. I can't figure out why anyone would bother making this.

Edit: Whoops, I didn't read to the end. Apparently this is an attempt at blackmail. I still don't see what the point is, though, since MIRI will hardly stop fundraising just to prevent this obviously fabricated "leak". Maybe the creator of the page is hoping that rationalists will conclude that there is some truth to the accusations on the basis that they wouldn't bother to blackmail MIRI with them if they were false? But if that was the goal, you'd think they could come up with more plausible or creative accusations.

Given (my assumptions about) the base rate of the alleged crime, it doesn't seem very credible to me that "numerous MIRI employees, board members, and donors" are all guilty of it. If the accusation were that one person had committed a serious crime and the rest of an organization were covering it up, that would seem at least plausible; but the notion that MIRI is somehow secretly a criminal syndicate does not seem to pass the laugh test.

Yeah, right. Sorry, but obvious trolling+slander is obvious trolling+slander.

A thought for the people who put this page up, and for anyone else considering similar shenanigans: remember that MIRI does not endorse CDT. They are prepared to bear considerable costs in this branch of reality where you decided to act against them, to reap the rewards in the branch where you thought about acting against them, realised how they would react, and thought better of it.

WTF?

Deleted for guessing of perpetrator names in advance of evidence. (Though usually I would encourage assigning probabilities to things.)

If you haven't visited the page, don't. It isn't worth your time.

OP or at least the link in it should be removed promptly to not provide the troll with any free SEO.

Maybe an op should rename this post to something that better describes it, if it's going to stay up. Google rank and other SEO influence isn't negated by downvoting this page.

Tim Tyler posted a link to the page on November 11 (due to time zone differences, shortly after this post), and someone posted a review of MIRI referencing it on GreatNonprofits.org on November 13 (the day after). That may give some indications of the person responsible.

EDIT: Originally I said Tim Tyler posted before this post, but it seems it was actually after and that he got it from here. In any case he just mentioned it in passing, while both this post and the review on GreatNonprofits had no purpose except to spread the link. So as I commented recently, the evidence basically indicates that WilliamJames is most likely responsible for the website.

Can someone post a ROT13ed link? I'm curious.

Oh, and in addition to being moronic and slanderous, they also misspell "throes", which is a pet peeve of mine.

The name of one of the rapists at MIRI was posted today.

Site says Dec 10th is the timing for next post.

I estimate an 80% chance that the base rate for polyamorists, if known, would directly give rise to a probability of 50% or higher for the basic claim being true for three or more persons fairly closely associated with MIRI.

The vindictiveness on the linked page strongly suggests an insider; it is hard to imagine someone hating them that much, without at least having met them personally. Likewise, some of the expressions (such as "with the possible exception of one") are more suggestive of someone's actual belief, rather than a clever lie.

Overall estimating a 65% chance the webpage is basically correct in terms of the substance of the claims, although certainly false in terms of the black and white painting of the situation.