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I looked her up, she was at MetaMed/Palantir/Longevity Research Inst, so definitely in the thick of things and in that world. That lying problem piece hits a lot harder post-sbf.
she shares Roam links regularly on LW.
Roam Research seems like a generic note-taking app endorsed by Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative and Sarah R. Constantin. Anything else notable about it?
Roam is also endorsed by an OpenAI staffer who thinks Scott Aaronson was one of her best professors.
I'm just going by memory here but I seem to recall Roam being either weirdly EA-adjacent or culty or both. Don't quote me.
Did not know those parts of her CV! At least two of the four CFAR founders have said things like "The actual drive in the background was a lot more like "Keep running workshops that wow people" with an additional (usually consciously (!) hidden) thread about luring people into being scared about AI risk in a very particular way .... Even from the very beginning CFAR simply COULD NOT be honest about what it was doing or bring anything like a collaborative tone to its participants."
MetaMed was founded by Michael Vassar, and Palantir is Alex Karp's creature, and both of those are bad dudes.