Rationalist drama: Manifold founder accused of ties to WBE, hired Caroline Ellison
venturetwins · x · 2026-10-04
Blogger brianluidog recapped a widening scandal in the AI rationalist community, amplified by venturetwins (245k followers):
- WBE faces rape allegations, reportedly the least contested part of the controversy
- The Manifold founder is claimed to be a big fan of WBE
- The Manifold founder recently hired Caroline Ellison (ex-FTX/Alameda)
- WBE also claimed Aella wanted to meet and sleep with him
The poster notes he's just catching up and may have details wrong.
More from Fun
- Cerebras' 12-inch wafer-scale chip shown at real scale, stunning AI researchers — beffjezos · 2026-10-04
- Dev Tells AI-Consciousness Believers to Lose Model Weights Access and 'Touch Grass' — inductionheads · 2026-10-04
- Longevity researcher claims half the Millennium Prize Problems are already solved, labs just can't say it — rand_longevity · 2026-10-04
- User finds ChatGPT image generation producing photorealistic nudity for the first time — flowersslop · 2026-10-04
- The Four Major AI Models Sorted Into Hogwarts Houses — dreamwieber · 2026-10-04
- Students cheated with LLMs on a zero-stakes oral exam, professor says — ipeirotis · 2026-10-04