Attempting to frame this as MacAskill simply putting them in touch is fairly astonishing. From the texts alone:
MacAskill laid out monetary amounts for the offers of Bankman-Fried’s investment in Twitter.
He’s worth $24B, and his early employees (with shared values) bump that to $30B. I asked about how much he could in principle contribute and he said: “~$1-3b would be easy ~3-8b I could do ~$8-15b is maybe possible but would require financing.
Then, when Musk explicitly asked if he would vouch for Sam Bankman-Fried. MacAskill vouched for him enthusiastically, linking explicitly to SBF’s dedication to longtermism.
You vouch for him?
Very much so! Very dedicated to making the long-term future of humanity go well.
I do not understand how this can be characterised as just putting them in touch.
I do not understand how this can be characterised as just putting them in touch.
You’re definitely right that it can’t. I imagine that many people (myself included) didn’t see these particular parts of the text message conversations.
FWIW, I think the talk about money was presumably just Will taking Sam’s word for it when he shouldn’t have, so there’s a sense in which the messages you’re quoting illustrate one mistake and not two.
That said, it’s a big one, if you vouch someone and then this happens (what we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks).
Attempting to frame this as MacAskill simply putting them in touch is fairly astonishing. From the texts alone:
MacAskill laid out monetary amounts for the offers of Bankman-Fried’s investment in Twitter.
Then, when Musk explicitly asked if he would vouch for Sam Bankman-Fried. MacAskill vouched for him enthusiastically, linking explicitly to SBF’s dedication to longtermism.
I do not understand how this can be characterised as just putting them in touch.
You’re definitely right that it can’t. I imagine that many people (myself included) didn’t see these particular parts of the text message conversations.
FWIW, I think the talk about money was presumably just Will taking Sam’s word for it when he shouldn’t have, so there’s a sense in which the messages you’re quoting illustrate one mistake and not two.
That said, it’s a big one, if you vouch someone and then this happens (what we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks).