Repost from LessWrong:
Dude is going to prison for life. I can’t believe how many rationalists are out here suggesting he’s gonna just walk away from this “because he’s a democratic donor”.
Maybe there was a galaxy brained legal road he could have taken that limited his damage to 5-10y after spending 10MM on an extraordinary plea negotiation and shutting the fuck up. He passed that fork in the road a hundred miles back. Currently he is sounding and acting like a megalomaniac to the point of seeming mentally ill. One wonders if he even realizes he’s going to be criminally charged regardless of the outcome of his “fundraising”.
If you stop calling yourself an EA in public because you think doing so will give people the wrong impression, that’s one thing, I guess.