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Wtf is the drama with tpot going on right now? Like what is this about?
What is tpot?
Something short and stout: here is its handle; here is its spout.
("This part of Twitter," a social-circle which I have some sense is rationalist-adjacent and known for being weird, but even the former I'm not really sure about.)
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A little over a week ago, a tpot-popular poster was allegedly linked to a criminal history sheet that's about as bad as it gets (cw: child sexual abuse), and has since deleted their twitter account after what looks to be confirmation. Along with Brent Dril showing up under a new handle (context), this has gotten a number of people who've long been critical of the most sexually-weird parts of Bay Arean culture doing 'I told you so' laps, and a number of people who were just generally critical talking up how it shows faults in the entire tpot culture, and some kinda with a foot in each. And some of it's gotten people... well, I'm hoping paranoid.
AFAICT, the vibecamp organizers are doing the ISO standard response of 'this guy was already banned' (which seems to be genuinely true!) and 'we're revising our safety procedures', but this still leaves a whole lot of people who didn't even think about those safety procedures as things that existed, for good or ill, or who believed that they were tied into relevant ones and found out they hard way they weren't.
Perfect example of how a truly abysmal top-level post brought out a great post as a reply that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
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