“Sharing Information About Nonlinear” by Ben Pace

Epistemic status: Once I started actively looking into things, much of my information in the post below came about by a search for negative information about the Nonlinear cofounders, not from a search to give a balanced picture of its overall costs and benefits. I think standard update rules suggest not that you ignore the information, but you think about how bad you expect the information would be if I selected for the worst, credible info I could share, and then update based on how much worse (or better) it is than you expect I could produce. (See section 5 of this post about Mistakes with Conservation of Expected Evidence for more on this.) This seems like a worthwhile exercise for at least non-zero people to do in the comments before reading on. (You can condition on me finding enough to be worth sharing, but also note that I think [...] ---Outline:(10:09) A High-Level Overview of The Employees’ Experience with Nonlinear(16:25) An assortment of reported experiences(40:59) Conversation with Nonlinear(48:47) My thoughts on the ethics and my takeawaysThe original text contained 10 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 7th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/32LMQsjEMm6NK2GTH/sharing-information-about-nonlinear --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.