I think the epistemic state of CEA was some mixture of something pretty close to what you list here, and something that I would put closer to something more like “Leverage maybe is bad, or maybe isn’t, but in any case it looks bad, and I don’t think I want people to think EA or CEA is bad, so we are going to try to avoid any associations between these entities, which will sometimes require stretching the truth”.
“Leverage maybe is bad, or maybe isn’t, but in any case it looks bad, and I don’t think I want people to think EA or CEA is bad, so we are going to try to avoid any associations between these entities, which will sometimes require stretching the truth”
That has the collary: “We don’t expect EA’s to care enough about the truth/being transparent that this is a huge reputational risk for us.”
I think the epistemic state of CEA was some mixture of something pretty close to what you list here, and something that I would put closer to something more like “Leverage maybe is bad, or maybe isn’t, but in any case it looks bad, and I don’t think I want people to think EA or CEA is bad, so we are going to try to avoid any associations between these entities, which will sometimes require stretching the truth”.
That has the collary: “We don’t expect EA’s to care enough about the truth/being transparent that this is a huge reputational risk for us.”