at the end of this article the interviewer clarifies that she verified this to be SBF, but does not clarify that SBF understood this conversation to be public (which suggests he may not have). hoping for some clarification there, because it’s relevant to understanding the broader ethical context in which this is all playing out under.
Sam has since tweeted “25) Last night I talked to a friend of mine. They published my messages. Those were not intended to be public, but I guess they are now.”
His claims are hard to believe. Kelsey is very well-known as a journalist in EA circles. She says she interviewed him for a piece in May. Before Sam’s tweet, she made a point of saying that she avoids secretly pulling “but I never said it would be off-the-record, you just asked for that” shenanigans. She confirmed the conversation with an email from her work account. She disputes the “friend” claim, and says they’ve never had any communication in any platform she can find, other than the aforementioned interview.
The only explanations that make sense to me are:
Sam expected Kelsey’s coverage to be more favorable and is now regretting his conversation
Sam has been under so much stress that even the incredibly obvious fact that this was a professional interview was something he failed to realize
Sam is just lying here, perhaps after hearing from his lawyers about how dumb the interview was
According to his twitter, he didn’t expect it to be published, but given that he was speaking to a journalist whose last interaction with him was an interview, given how many people obviously want to understand what just happened, given how many journalists must have tried to contact him, and given that (according to Kelsey) no indication was offered that this conversation would not be published, this is an absurd expectation.
at the end of this article the interviewer clarifies that she verified this to be SBF, but does not clarify that SBF understood this conversation to be public (which suggests he may not have). hoping for some clarification there, because it’s relevant to understanding the broader ethical context in which this is all playing out under.
Sam has since tweeted “25) Last night I talked to a friend of mine. They published my messages. Those were not intended to be public, but I guess they are now.”
His claims are hard to believe. Kelsey is very well-known as a journalist in EA circles. She says she interviewed him for a piece in May. Before Sam’s tweet, she made a point of saying that she avoids secretly pulling “but I never said it would be off-the-record, you just asked for that” shenanigans. She confirmed the conversation with an email from her work account. She disputes the “friend” claim, and says they’ve never had any communication in any platform she can find, other than the aforementioned interview.
The only explanations that make sense to me are:
Sam expected Kelsey’s coverage to be more favorable and is now regretting his conversation
Sam has been under so much stress that even the incredibly obvious fact that this was a professional interview was something he failed to realize
Sam is just lying here, perhaps after hearing from his lawyers about how dumb the interview was
The other reason for Sam to be lying would be so that he can lead people to believe the answers are genuine.
According to his twitter, he didn’t expect it to be published, but given that he was speaking to a journalist whose last interaction with him was an interview, given how many people obviously want to understand what just happened, given how many journalists must have tried to contact him, and given that (according to Kelsey) no indication was offered that this conversation would not be published, this is an absurd expectation.