edit mainly after talking to Naia in the comments, I update towards being uncertain about whether we knew SBF was unusually badly behaved (from being confident he wasn’t). ie maybe we did have the information required to be pretty sure he wasn’t worth funding or to keep him at arms length. As I say I am uncertain but previously I dismissed this
I am quite confident we knew he was unusually bad behaved by EA standards. I think a bunch of people thought he was not that far of an outlier by Silicon Valley founder standards, though I think they were wrong.
I still sense that core EAs take this seriously
I do indeed a bunch of people are taking this quite seriously. I do think that in-general the FTX explosion is hugely changing a lot of people’s outlook on EA and how to relate to the world.
I still think they don’t think they can talk
To be clear, I am quite confident the legal consequences for talking would be quite minor and have talked to some people with extensive legal experience about this. At this point there is no good legal reason to not talk.
I still don’t understand why they can’t give a clear promise of when they will talk and that the lack of this makes me trust them less
I think people aren’t talking because it seems stressful and because they are worried being more associated with FTX would be bad for PR. I also think a lot of people kind of picked up on a vibe that core people aren’t supposed to talk about FTX stuff because it makes us look bad and because there used to be a bunch of organizational policies in-place that did prevent talking, but I think those are mostly gone by now.
I am quite confident we knew he was unusually bad behaved by EA standards. I think a bunch of people thought he was not that far of an outlier by Silicon Valley founder standards, though I think they were wrong.
I do indeed a bunch of people are taking this quite seriously. I do think that in-general the FTX explosion is hugely changing a lot of people’s outlook on EA and how to relate to the world.
To be clear, I am quite confident the legal consequences for talking would be quite minor and have talked to some people with extensive legal experience about this. At this point there is no good legal reason to not talk.
I think people aren’t talking because it seems stressful and because they are worried being more associated with FTX would be bad for PR. I also think a lot of people kind of picked up on a vibe that core people aren’t supposed to talk about FTX stuff because it makes us look bad and because there used to be a bunch of organizational policies in-place that did prevent talking, but I think those are mostly gone by now.