How/why was he chased away?
I assume this is the essay you're talking about? https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2023/01/08/ai-will-kill...
I assume this is the essay you're talking about? https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2023/01/08/ai-will-kill...
By that line of logic, there’s no need for courts. You can just ask the suspect if he committed the crime. If he says he didn’t do it, we’ll now you have your answer and you can let him go.
No one knows for sure why he was banned but the most credible theory is that:
(1) he knew too much about YC’s lack of support for Aaron Swartz (who was a Reddit cofounder, thus YC alum) and his reputation when the man was in federal crosshairs, and discrediting MOC was a preemptive strike of sorts.
(2) he pointed out the existence of algorithmic manipulations (slowban, rankban) before anyone knew those were a thing.
(3) he wrote some blog post in 2012 you can’t even find but that one of the YC partners thought was personally about him. I can’t verify this because I think the post was deleted years ago.
It could be all or any of those in some combination.
Or none of them.