User:Polydamas
Comoedia humana. I value articles which are reserved and accurate without too much partisan language or misleading insinuations. A RationalWiki article should not sound like a small-town newspaper from 1995, but it should skewer with sweet reason.
Articles I created
- Aella
- Asterisk Magazine
- Ozy Brennan
- Decoupling
- Hereticon
- Insight porn
- Kelsey Piper
- Pronatalism
- Postrationalism
- Space advocacy, seemingly scientific but often veers off into Libertarianism and pseudoscience like a SpaceX rocket failing to land
- Elizabeth Weiss
- Zizians (just a redirect page)
Articles I drafted
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Articles I maintain
I update the pages on Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, EA, LessWrong when they say or do something especially daft in public
Categories I created
- Category:Events (direct link without adding this to the category is hard, we currently have entries for fringe events Hereticon, Manifest (covered under LessWrong), Vitalia, Your Origins Matter)
Topics to cover one day
- Sam Altman
- Nick Bostrom
- Gwern Branwen
- Caroline Ellison
- Sabine Hossenfelder
- Jane Street Capital, or just the EAs and rationalists who worked there
- Sarah R. Constantin of "EA has a Lying Problem" https://srconstantin.github.io/2017/01/17/ea-has-a-lying-problem.html (a rare LessWonger with two degrees in math)
- William MacAskill
- Manifest (event in Berkeley)
- Michael Anissimov, who posted for ugly Internet movements then flamed out in 2015. Edited a book by Yudkowsky.
- Zvi Mowshowitz (also has an actual degree in math)
- Patrick 'patio11' McKenzie, harmless small businessman who fell into bad company
- Mercury, SoCal fintech startup whose blog promoted figures of interest to RW including Emmett Shear, Noor Siddiqui and Dwarkesh Patel (also crypto, so much crypto)
- Dwarkesh Patel
- Progress Studies, because the 19th century can only call not post a blog when it wants its Whig Theory back
- Secular Solstice (and similar events in the Neo-Pagan movement in the SF Bay Area in the 20th century)
- Vibecamp
- Wordcels and shape rotators, because social media culture got even stupider and prone to dichotomies after the glory days of Tumblr
Useful internal links
- Help:Manual of style
- Sidebar navigation templates (portals)
- To create a page
foo
which is just a redirect to pagebar
, use#redirect[[pagename]]
or#redirect[[pagename#section-tag]]
. However, this feature shouldn't be used to redirect a mainspace page to a draft article. - Template:Draft categories (use this so draft posts are not added to the category pages)
- Deletion Log
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=delete
for tracking the damage done by the lawsuits in spring 2025
Advice on articles on living persons from ModTalk September 2025.
To avoid defamation, you should not make direct statements (that someone committed acts which could be criminal) unless there is a court conviction. Frame any accusations by naming the accuser (or their relevant pseudonym) with what the accuser exactly said, and give the relevant citation. If the accused has responded to the accuser, you should also include what the accused said and a citation to their response. When the accused is deceased (he's not in this case), this does not need to be so rigorous because in the US (at least for now) the deceased cannot be defamed. Name and reference both accusation(s) and the 'reply' to it. I would suggest to not go into details esp if it's actually being investigated etc. As Bongo says, don't speculate, don't comment - 'just the facts'.