This is a tangent, but I made this anon account because I'm about to voice an unpopular opinion, but the people who dug up su3su2u1's identity also verified his credentials. If you look at the shlevy post that questioned his credentials, there is an ETA at the bottom that says "I have personally verified that he does in fact have a physics phd and does currently work in data science, consistent with his claims on tumblr." His pseudo-anonymous expertise was more vetted than most.
His sins were sockpuppeting on other rationalists blogs not lying about credentials. Although, full disclosure I only read the HPMOR review and the physics posts. We shouldn't get too wrapped up in these ideas of persecution.
This is a tangent, but I made this anon account because I'm about to voice an unpopular opinion, but the people who dug up su3su2u1's identity also verified his credentials. If you look at the shlevy post that questioned his credentials, there is an ETA at the bottom that says "I have personally verified that he does in fact have a physics phd and does currently work in data science, consistent with his claims on tumblr." His pseudo-anonymous expertise was more vetted than most.
His sins were sockpuppeting on other rationalists blogs not lying about credentials. Although, full disclosure I only read the HPMOR review and the physics posts. We shouldn't get too wrapped up in these ideas of persecution.