I think almost everyone I know who has taken up requests to be interviewed about some community-adjacent thing in the last 10 years has regretted their choice, not because they were punished by the community or something, but because the journalists ended up twisting their words and perspective in a way both felt deeply misrepresentative and gave the interviewee no way to object or correct anything.
Do you have thoughts about the idea of creating a thread on a site like the EA Forum or Less Wrong where someone takes questions from the media and responds in writing publicly? 3 birds with one stone: written responses can be more considered, public source material discourages misrepresentation, and less need to respond to the same question multiple times.
(This was Wei Dai’s idea for handling journalist questions about Bitcoin.)
I think something like that is a better idea. Or separately, for people to just write up their takes in comments and posts themselves. I’ve been reasonable happy with the outcomes of me doing that during this FTX thing. I think I’ve been quoted in one or two articles, and I think those quotes have been fine.
Do you have thoughts about the idea of creating a thread on a site like the EA Forum or Less Wrong where someone takes questions from the media and responds in writing publicly? 3 birds with one stone: written responses can be more considered, public source material discourages misrepresentation, and less need to respond to the same question multiple times.
(This was Wei Dai’s idea for handling journalist questions about Bitcoin.)
I think something like that is a better idea. Or separately, for people to just write up their takes in comments and posts themselves. I’ve been reasonable happy with the outcomes of me doing that during this FTX thing. I think I’ve been quoted in one or two articles, and I think those quotes have been fine.