I do think I’ve seen the specific claim that there was lots of public promotion of Sam
Fuss away. E.g.
Jack Lewars “to avoid putting single donors on a huge pedestal inside and outside the community” and again “putting [SBF] on a pedestal and making them symbolic of EA”
Gideon Futerman “making and encouraging Will (and I guess until recently to a lesser extent SBF) the face of EA”
tcheasdfjkl “while a lot of (other?) EAs are promoting him publicly”
Peter S. Park “But making SBF the face of the EA movement was a really bad decision”
Devon Fritz “EA decided to hold up and promote SBF as a paragon of EA values and on of the few prominent faces in the EA community”
Dean Abele “I don’t know if I should stay in EA. I would feel very sad if [Will] publicly praised someone who turned out to be morally bankrupt. Of course, everyone makes mistakes. But still, some trust has been lost.”
Peter Wildeford “The other clear mistake was promoting Sam so heavily as the poster child of EA.” [This comment is no longer endorsed by its author]
David_Althaus “I think it’s clear that we put SBF on a pedestal and promoted him as someone worth emulating, I don’t really know what to say to someone who disagrees with this.”
Habryka “Some part of EA leadership ended up endorsing SBF very publicly and very strongly despite having very likely heard about the concerns, and without following up on them (In my model of the world Will fucked up really hard here)” and again “[Will] was the person most responsible for entangling EA with FTX by publicly endorsing SBF multiple times”
Jonas Vollmer “while Nick took SBF’s money, he didn’t give SBF a strong platform or otherwise promote him a lot...So...Will should be removed”
Fuss away. E.g.
Jack Lewars “to avoid putting single donors on a huge pedestal inside and outside the community” and again “putting [SBF] on a pedestal and making them symbolic of EA”
Gideon Futerman “making and encouraging Will (and I guess until recently to a lesser extent SBF) the face of EA”
tcheasdfjkl “while a lot of (other?) EAs are promoting him publicly”
Peter S. Park “But making SBF the face of the EA movement was a really bad decision”
Devon Fritz “EA decided to hold up and promote SBF as a paragon of EA values and on of the few prominent faces in the EA community”
Dean Abele “I don’t know if I should stay in EA. I would feel very sad if [Will] publicly praised someone who turned out to be morally bankrupt. Of course, everyone makes mistakes. But still, some trust has been lost.”
Peter Wildeford “The other clear mistake was promoting Sam so heavily as the poster child of EA.” [This comment is no longer endorsed by its author]
David_Althaus “I think it’s clear that we put SBF on a pedestal and promoted him as someone worth emulating, I don’t really know what to say to someone who disagrees with this.”
Habryka “Some part of EA leadership ended up endorsing SBF very publicly and very strongly despite having very likely heard about the concerns, and without following up on them (In my model of the world Will fucked up really hard here)” and again “[Will] was the person most responsible for entangling EA with FTX by publicly endorsing SBF multiple times”
Jonas Vollmer “while Nick took SBF’s money, he didn’t give SBF a strong platform or otherwise promote him a lot...So...Will should be removed”