Oddbean new post about login | logout One of the most disturbing events of my online life was an exchange with Gladstein where he simply wouldn’t recognize or condemn the Ukrainian conscription without saying what Russia is doing was worse, calling me a Putin sympathizer, etc.
The statists will be statists
ze brainwashed will be brainwashed
I still don’t know. It seemed dramatically inconsistent with the rest of his work. Which is why I tried to maintain civility for as long as a could, even with others chiming in. It was like interacting with a mediocre chat bot / foreign agent. Almost like I tripped over something I shouldn’t have.
there s more ppl seem to feel stein issa mossad spook btw, might be true
Possibly. My working hypothesis, the simplest one, is that his employer HRF is run by Kasparov, who is one of the biggest Putin critics. I even mentioned that to him in the exchange, but of course he had to deny that it would affect what he can say.