Was this incident an isolated case? Yes and no. I think this was by some way my most egregious mistake of this type.
Right-given his claim that this was by some way much less egregious than the TIME case, this should be an update that he would feel similarly confident that he’d take on very minimal risk from disclosing to Julia.
I can see where the predatory sociopath etc is coming from, but to be clear, all I am suggesting here is that just because something might have a good chance of not coming to light, this isn’t necessarily good evidence for a person being high integrity. The “coming to light” part is a proxy for “negative consequences”, so if Owen is sufficiently confident that there will be minimal risks of negative consequences of disclosure (indeed, because previous experience with a much more egregious case suggests this), and some indication that disclosing may be helpful for him in some way, this can be done in a self-interested way not indicative of high integrity. Importantly, doing this does not require Owen being a “predatory sociopath”, or ill intentions from him.
but I have another EA’s apology in mind from a situation that looks superficially similar, where the wording in that other apology was just so much more evasive and deliberately vague that this feels like night and day.
Just to be clear, you are not talking about Bostrom’s apology? I think I know what you’re referring to if not, and I’m not asking you to share it, but just thought I’d check as iirc we had a brief exchange about the Bostrom apology, and it would be useful for onlookers to know that you’re not referring to that if they don’t have context here.
Right-given his claim that this was by some way much less egregious than the TIME case, this should be an update that he would feel similarly confident that he’d take on very minimal risk from disclosing to Julia.
I can see where the predatory sociopath etc is coming from, but to be clear, all I am suggesting here is that just because something might have a good chance of not coming to light, this isn’t necessarily good evidence for a person being high integrity. The “coming to light” part is a proxy for “negative consequences”, so if Owen is sufficiently confident that there will be minimal risks of negative consequences of disclosure (indeed, because previous experience with a much more egregious case suggests this), and some indication that disclosing may be helpful for him in some way, this can be done in a self-interested way not indicative of high integrity. Importantly, doing this does not require Owen being a “predatory sociopath”, or ill intentions from him.
Just to be clear, you are not talking about Bostrom’s apology? I think I know what you’re referring to if not, and I’m not asking you to share it, but just thought I’d check as iirc we had a brief exchange about the Bostrom apology, and it would be useful for onlookers to know that you’re not referring to that if they don’t have context here.