Loudly making unfounded or exaggerated claims of corruption is a pretty effective tool for muddying the waters and making it less clear where the smoke is coming from.

This is why people don't respect "rationalists." Because people claim to have superior reasoning skills but would fail a freshman survey course on it.

I'm making valid (if deeply critical) points but you're contributing nothing except your misinformed judgments.

Unfortunately most rationalists aren't as smart as they think and mistake verbosity for reason and judgment.

Rational thought should help you understand yourself, not disappear.

I doubt Yandex would ever be able to leave Russia, even if it wanted to.

As a Google employee my defense is it's hard for a company this big to move fast, but I can understand how Google customers would be annoyed.

I know it's a matter of personal taste but it reminds me of a grad student that tries to sound smarter than he is by being dismissive and opaque.

Models move so fast now and Google is very cautious about releasing them.

He seems to have come to that conclusion, fwiw.