“ We have unusually strong marketing connections; Vitalik approves of us; Aella is a marketing advisor on this project; SlateStarCodex is well aware of us. We are quite networked in the Effective Altruism space. We could plausibly get an Elon tweet. ”
From the short investor spiel document. Also they want to just bypass the FDA?
also why is aella alone there the one with screenname? is her identity not actually public?
In before NY times article prints her real name complete with hissie fit followed by transition to Substack and total abandonment of mask of deniability.
Its to do with her dad I figure.
do tell? I’m not aware of this. I’ve mostly managed to avoid having detailed contact with these weirdos, and only in the last few years happened to encounter … their profiles and such. to my knowledge i’ve not yet managed to meet any of the mainliners of this shit in ZA
Her dad is a big dude in hardcore calvinist apologetics. I can’t remember the org name but like - hard hardcore fundies.
there’s a poetic irony in target fixating so hard on avoiding one set of weird nutbaggery to then end up as one of the central figures in another bit of nutbaggery…
A lot of these people come from the ex-fundie world. This has been noted with other cults too.
Iirc she comes from a weird religious background, so her not wanting to be connected back to that isn’t not that sneerworthy.