I’ve now done ~15 minutes of research on Ronan Farrow’s previous reporting to check how much bounded distrust to be exercising, and have updated to “slightly more”.
My modal belief is still that Sam Altman’s parting from YC was both causally downstream[1] of other people involved reacting to various forms of deceptive behavior, and that the “YC Chairman” shenanigans were in fact shenanigans.
With a further claim about the origin of the “Sam had been lying to us all the time” bit: https://x.com/paulg/status/2041459514634060093
I’ve now done ~15 minutes of research on Ronan Farrow’s previous reporting to check how much bounded distrust to be exercising, and have updated to “slightly more”.
My modal belief is still that Sam Altman’s parting from YC was both causally downstream[1] of other people involved reacting to various forms of deceptive behavior, and that the “YC Chairman” shenanigans were in fact shenanigans.
In non-trivial part, not necessarily in total or even mostly.