What are you going on about? typelevel had another conference organised outside of lambdaconf. It's affiliated with it, but doesn't happen at the same time - th

What are you going on about? typelevel had another conference organised outside of lambdaconf. It's affiliated with it, but doesn't happen at the same time - the idea being that you could come for lambdaconf, but take the opportunity to see what these typelevel folks are all about. The fact that they cancelled the typelevel conference changes nothing for lambdaconf. They decided to cancel it because they feel that being associated with an advocate of white supremacy over the lesser races hurt their image, or were offended by said views. It's their prerogative, just as it's lambdaconf's prerogative to invite that man. They're not asking people to boycott lambdaconf, they're not even blaming lambdaconf for doing this - they explicitly state that they respect their right to do so. I read an implicit "just as you should respect our right to associate, or not, with whoever we want" there. How is standing up for what you believe in cowardly? they find these ideas disgusting and protest them in a peaceful yet visible way. What would you rather have them do? ignore the issue and compromise their ethics because, well, it's easier (read: be cowards)? or make a more confrontational stand, such as trying to get lambdaconf speakers to cancel? The issue is not whether moldbug is great or not - it's whether typelevel wants to be associated in any way, shape or form with ideas that they find abhorrent. They decided they didn't want to, and I can't really fault them for that.