Rationalist AI community drama: Aella accused of misleading claims amid orgy LLC Anthropic employee row
lazy_grad · x · 2026-10-30
A fight inside the rationalist AI community is unfolding around Aella: critics say her phrasing about "people at major AI labs" attending a controversial orgy LLC misled readers, and claim an Anthropic employee is listed as a manager on that LLC's paperwork.
- @lazygrad argues the statement is, with context, clearly a lie made for PR
- NathanpmYoung prefers "typical readers would be misled" over the word "lying"
- The thread exposes a rift: one part of the community is careful about truth, another skews it for PR — and the two coexist
- Commenters note no "honest" community member corrected Aella; it took an outside critic