alt Hacker NewsGwern is overly secretive of his privacy. I think it peaked when he showed up on a recent podcast but his voice and image were AI generated! And now his post is limited only to certain people. Elitism or paranoia?
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fastball • yesterday at 10:50 PM
He's had a private Twitter for a while.
wat10000 • yesterday at 11:17 PM
What business is it of yours? Manage your own privacy. Let other people decide theirs.
cubefox • yesterday at 11:00 PM
He says he is retiring from pseudonymity. (Gwern Branwen is not his real name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwern)
oh_my_goodness • yesterday at 11:42 PM
Stalker vibes bro.
Revealing your identity needs only to be done once, and then you can't undo.
It's difficult for us to know what reason they might have for anonymity until we know their identity, at which point it's too late.
Also, they've written many words across many years, in a time when "the internet is serious business" was just a meme. I suppose it is now.