Based on conversations with people at the time, it seems plausible to me that this is true. However, this is not as serious a concern as you might think: IMHO it was reasonable to consider both SBF and Tara highly untrustworthy at the time. Will trusted SBF too much, but his skepticism of Tara seems justified. Tara’s hedge fund suffered a major loss later, and I heard she showed low integrity in communicating with stakeholders about the loss.
Relevant quote from the article:
“He was treating it like a ‘he said-she said,’ even though every other long-time EA involved had left because of the same concerns,” Bouscal adds.
“every other long-time EA involved had left because of the same concerns” is significant corroboration though (and a direct quote from an on-the-record source).
Yeah, I think it’s probably fair to say that I worded that a bit too strongly. I do think she fits the reference class significantly less well than many of the other EAs who left (notably, she was only 23 at the time), but I should have been more precise.
Threats are (usually) very bad, even if the person threatened later does something bad. But I still don’t actually feel I know “Will did something really bad to Tara”*, because it’s so vague how far a stretch “basically threatenrd” is from “threatened”.
*I’m already convinced he made a major error of judgment in backing Sam given the existence of thr doc listing his misdeeds mentioned in the Time article.
Based on conversations with people at the time, it seems plausible to me that this is true. However, this is not as serious a concern as you might think: IMHO it was reasonable to consider both SBF and Tara highly untrustworthy at the time. Will trusted SBF too much, but his skepticism of Tara seems justified. Tara’s hedge fund suffered a major loss later, and I heard she showed low integrity in communicating with stakeholders about the loss.
Relevant quote from the article:
“every other long-time EA involved had left because of the same concerns” is significant corroboration though (and a direct quote from an on-the-record source).
Isn’t Caroline Ellison an obvious exception?
Yeah, I think it’s probably fair to say that I worded that a bit too strongly. I do think she fits the reference class significantly less well than many of the other EAs who left (notably, she was only 23 at the time), but I should have been more precise.
Threats are (usually) very bad, even if the person threatened later does something bad. But I still don’t actually feel I know “Will did something really bad to Tara”*, because it’s so vague how far a stretch “basically threatenrd” is from “threatened”.
*I’m already convinced he made a major error of judgment in backing Sam given the existence of thr doc listing his misdeeds mentioned in the Time article.