Comment by Richard Yannow (richard-yannow-1) on Kelsey Piper's recent interview of SBF · 2022-11-17T00:32:31.339Z · LW · GW

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