The fact that some FTX people did terrible stuff presumably doesn’t mean that we should lower our standards; so I’m not sure what the point of the comparison here is.
We don’t want to shrug our shoulders at all bad behavior that falls short of multibillion-dollar fraud, and I took ofer to be making a local point “be mindful that other EAs have screwed up on honesty, and don’t treat us (or specifically Holden) like flawless authorities here even if we’re community leaders giving confident moral advice”, not drawing an equivalence between FTX and the GiveWell astroturfing.
The fact that some FTX people did terrible stuff presumably doesn’t mean that we should lower our standards; so I’m not sure what the point of the comparison here is.
We don’t want to shrug our shoulders at all bad behavior that falls short of multibillion-dollar fraud, and I took ofer to be making a local point “be mindful that other EAs have screwed up on honesty, and don’t treat us (or specifically Holden) like flawless authorities here even if we’re community leaders giving confident moral advice”, not drawing an equivalence between FTX and the GiveWell astroturfing.