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This post was really hard to write.

I don’t enjoy taking a shit on people.

I don’t like defaming people’s names, and I try really, really hard not to spread rumors about people (and their inner character) unless I’m really damn confident that I’m correct in my observations.

I certainly have had so much experience with the rumor mill in college to never willingly wish to be a contributor - or instigator - towards a negative public perception of someone that I’ve never even met before.

And so this post gives me no ultimate satisfaction to write, and though I’m confident in my ability to back up what I say, it definitely doesn’t make me happy to publish this.

Unfortunately, the amount of fear-mongering, bullying, and outright lies that Duncan Sabien has published, encouraged, and let fester about me in the Bay Area spaces that I cherish - LessWrong, Rationality, PauseAI, Effective Altruism, and adjacent areas - demands that I stand up for myself and let you guys knows just how wrong this guy really is.

I hope that this serves as a sort of barrier to future people whom he might critique, and a warning to those who have trusted Duncan in the past - perhaps, get your own read of people and participants in the space. Duncan’s judgement probably shouldn’t be trusted anymore.

Interlude: Why Read This (Or Why Ignore) [Or: Why I Feel Compelled to Write This]

I’m making this post for a couple of reasons - listed below, not necessarily in order of importance or priority. If any of these listed reasons appeals to you, I guess read it?

Again, airing this out for the world to see isn’t actually my idea of fun, and I’d much rather be talking about the 37 cool and awesome things I’ve done than showcase a time in my life when I was going through:

an intense breakup with an an ex-girlfriend who developed anger issues, and losing most of my social group out here in the Bay Area because they seem to have taken her side of things
having to call the FBI on my former best friend of 10 years due to some very uncomfortable things I found out about, and not being taken seriously by the mutual friends of [him and I]
dealing with an overprotective white knight by the

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