4⁄4 Update: An EA who was involved in EA’s early response to the FTX disaster has give me their take on why there hasn’t yet been an investigation. They think EA leaders (at least, the ones they talked to a lot at the time) had “little to do with a desire to protect the reputation of EA or of individual EAs”, and had more to do with things like “general time constraints and various exogenous logistical difficulties”.
See this comment for a lot more details, and a short response from Habryka.
Also, some corrections: I said that “there was a narrow investigation into legal risk to Effective Ventures last year”, which I think risks overstating how narrow the investigation probably was. I also said that Julia Wise had “been calling for the existence of such an investigation”, when from her perspective she “listed it as a possible project rather than calling for it exactly”. Again, see the comment for details.
4⁄4 Update: An EA who was involved in EA’s early response to the FTX disaster has give me their take on why there hasn’t yet been an investigation. They think EA leaders (at least, the ones they talked to a lot at the time) had “little to do with a desire to protect the reputation of EA or of individual EAs”, and had more to do with things like “general time constraints and various exogenous logistical difficulties”.
See this comment for a lot more details, and a short response from Habryka.
Also, some corrections: I said that “there was a narrow investigation into legal risk to Effective Ventures last year”, which I think risks overstating how narrow the investigation probably was. I also said that Julia Wise had “been calling for the existence of such an investigation”, when from her perspective she “listed it as a possible project rather than calling for it exactly”. Again, see the comment for details.