I believe that was discussed in the episode with Spencer. Search for ‘threatened’ in the transcript linked here.
00:22:30 Spencer Greenberg
And then the other thing that some people have claimed is that when Alameda had that original split up early on, where some people in the fact about trans community fled, that you had somehow threatened one of the people that had left. What? What was that all about?
00:22:47 Will MacAskill
Yeah. I mean, so yeah, it felt pretty.
00:22:50 Will MacAskill
This last when I read that because, yeah, certainly didn’t have a memory of threatening anyone. And so yeah, I reached out to the person who it was about because it wasn’t the person saying that they’d been friend. It was someone else saying that that person had been friend. So yeah, I reached out to them. So there was a conversation between me and that.
00:23:07 Will MacAskill
Person that was like kind of heated like.
00:23:09 Will MacAskill
But yeah, they don’t think I was like intending to intimidate them or anything like that. And then it was also like in my memory, not about the Alameda blow up. It was like a.
I find it easy to believe there was a heated argument but no threats, because it is easy for things to get exaggerated, and the line between telling someone you no longer trust them because of a disagreement and threatening them is unclear when you are a powerful person who might employ them. But I find Will’s claim that the conversation wasn’t even about whether Sam was trustworthy or anything related to that, to be really quite hard to believe. It would be weird for someone to be mistaken or exaggerate about that, and I feel like a lie is unlikely, simply because I don’t see what anyone would gain from lying to TIME about this.
I believe that was discussed in the episode with Spencer. Search for ‘threatened’ in the transcript linked here.
00:22:30 Spencer Greenberg
And then the other thing that some people have claimed is that when Alameda had that original split up early on, where some people in the fact about trans community fled, that you had somehow threatened one of the people that had left. What? What was that all about?
00:22:47 Will MacAskill
Yeah. I mean, so yeah, it felt pretty.
00:22:50 Will MacAskill
This last when I read that because, yeah, certainly didn’t have a memory of threatening anyone. And so yeah, I reached out to the person who it was about because it wasn’t the person saying that they’d been friend. It was someone else saying that that person had been friend. So yeah, I reached out to them. So there was a conversation between me and that.
00:23:07 Will MacAskill
Person that was like kind of heated like.
00:23:09 Will MacAskill
But yeah, they don’t think I was like intending to intimidate them or anything like that. And then it was also like in my memory, not about the Alameda blow up. It was like a.
00:23:18 Will MacAskill
Different issue.
This doesn’t feel like a great response to me.
I find it easy to believe there was a heated argument but no threats, because it is easy for things to get exaggerated, and the line between telling someone you no longer trust them because of a disagreement and threatening them is unclear when you are a powerful person who might employ them. But I find Will’s claim that the conversation wasn’t even about whether Sam was trustworthy or anything related to that, to be really quite hard to believe. It would be weird for someone to be mistaken or exaggerate about that, and I feel like a lie is unlikely, simply because I don’t see what anyone would gain from lying to TIME about this.