It has been noted that Émile Torres has a history of vilifying public figures whom they once admired:
In a pattern that has recurred, over and over again, with several people Torres was friends with and communities Torres was part of, around late 2017 Torres switched from regarding Boghossian as a “brilliant” scholar to the sort of person who “defends Nazis”.
(It is beyond the scope of this article to examine Torres's violent "sign reversals" in their assessment of people and communities. But I was struck by how often the initial trigger is, upon closer inspection, revealed to be a feeling of rejection Torres experienced, such as being turned down for a job, not being invited to a podcast, or having a book collaboration terminated. Torres’s “realization” that these people and communities, once held in such high esteem, were profoundly evil or dangerous routinely comes after those personal setbacks, as a post hoc rationalization. A future article may document these incidents, which shed so much light on Torres’s character and motives, in much greater detail.)
It's only a matter of time before Torres "flips" on one of their allies, which include Timnit Gebru.
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@L also, seems unlikely, gebru is very good at reliably critiquing unjust authority, my only critique of her critiques is that she tends to also include those who were near the authority incorrectly. It is objectively hard to figure out who is on which side when someone was being an infiltrator to what should have been a good movement, so I can hardly blame gebru for her criticism of effective altruism being too broad initially. I wish she would be a little bit more specific but in general I think most criticism of gebru is in fact actually missing her key good points
FWIW I find this market and the description in poor taste. I've been as unhappy about some of Torres' articles as the next person, but they are not really a public figure. I would also like to point out that the (pseudonymous? I haven't been able to find an actual New York public defender by that name) author of the post you link has a Twitter profile that seems to primarily have been created to host negative comments about Torres.
