I have thoughts on other points you made but just wanted to comment on this one bit for the moment:
I think it is very strange that SBF had so many inconsistencies between his claimed moral positions and his behavior and nobody noticed it.
Habryka noticed. His full comment is at that link but here are some key excerpts (emphasis mine):
Like, to be clear, I think the vast majority of EAs had little they could have or should have done here. But I think that I, and a bunch of people in the EA leadership, had the ability to actually do something about this.
I sent emails in which I warned people of SBF. I had had messages written but that I never sent that seem to me like if I had sent them they would have actually caused people to realize a bunch of inconsistencies in Sam’s story. I had sat down my whole team, swore them to secrecy, and told them various pretty clearly illegal things that I heard Sam had done [sadly all uncomfirmed, asking for confidentiality and only in rumors] that convinced me that we should avoid doing business with him as much as possible (this was when we were considering whether to do a bunch of community building in the Bahamas). Like, in my worldview, I did do my due diligence, and FTX completely failed my due diligence, and I just failed to somehow propagate that knowledge.
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I do also think it is pretty unlikely we could have prevented FTX exploding, though I do think we could have likely prevented FTX being super embedded in the EA Community, having a ton of people rely on its funding, and having Sam be held up in tons of places as a paragon of the EA community. Like, I think we fucked up pretty hard by saying for a few years that we think Sam did great by our values, when I think it was already pretty clear by that point that he quite likely wasn’t.
I have thoughts on other points you made but just wanted to comment on this one bit for the moment:
Habryka noticed. His full comment is at that link but here are some key excerpts (emphasis mine):
You’re right. I guess people noticed but there was no meaningful action taken. Oh well I guess until next time.
Sadly, lol.