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“Three Missing Cakes, or One Turbulent Critic?” by Benquo


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Zack Davis emailed me[1] asking me to weigh in on the moderators' request for comment on their proposal to ban Said_Achmiz. I've had a conflict with Said in the past in this thread and apparently they're claiming in private communications that this is a major reason I don't use the site anymore. That's not true (see email chain in footnote), and if you want to look for personal reasons I'm off the site the stupidity of the attempt at conflict mediation between me and Duncan Sabien in response to this comment, which mediation attempt effectively denied the importance of the object-level disagreement, is a better candidate. (I think Duncan also thought it was handled poorly, and I don't think he disagrees strongly with me as to how it was handled poorly.)

But I'm torn as to whether and how much to comment on this, because I think my position [...]

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:

July 13th, 2025

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wd8mNFof8o7EtoiLi/three-missing-cakes-or-one-turbulent-critic

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