Comment by ouguoc on AI #91: Deep Thinking · 2024-12-09T07:26:47.057Z · LW · GW

Do you have more information on what Denisov-Blanch's methodology was? I'm honestly quite skeptical of the claims made here, and I'm a little disappointed that it's gotten published so widely - for starters, how do you think he identified who an engineer was at each of the companies in his dataset? What companies and organizations ended up in his dataset?

I think there's a few reasons for skepticism if you look at the guy's background, so I wonder what digging you've done.

Comment by ouguoc on Effective Aspersions: How the Nonlinear Investigation Went Wrong · 2023-12-20T05:45:49.420Z · LW · GW

Just commenting to explain that I strongly downvoted this post because:

• The "Unambiguous Falsehoods" section appears to contain exclusively truths or ambiguous claims of falsehood on Nonlinear's part (extremely strange to read, and happened constantly as I was reading this post)
• I'm not sure how it's possible to totally disregard the power dynamics / coercion at play when an independently-wealthy person threatens to sue someone investigating them, but it appears that you've succeeded in doing so

Overall I think you have a fun and engaging writing style - kudos for that - but the content of this post was harmful.