It’s very easy to not lie when talking about the future. It is much easier to “just this once” lie about the past. You can do both, for instance, by explaining that you believe a project will succeed, even while withholding information that would convince a donor otherwise.
An example of this would be errors or misconduct in completing past projects.
Lack of relevant qualifications for people SIAI plans to employ on a project.
Or administrative errors and misconduct.
Or public relations / donor outreach misconduct.
To put the question another, less abstract way, have you ever lied to a SIAI donor? Do you know of anyone affiliated with SIAI who has lied a donor?
Hypothetically, If I said I had evidence in the affirmative to the second question, how surprising would that be to you? How much money would you bet that such evidence doesn’t exist?
You’re trying very hard to get everyone to think that SIAI has lied to donors or done something equally dishonest. I agree that this is an appropriate question to discuss, but you are pursuing the matter so aggressively that I just have to ask: do you know something we don’t? Do you think that you/other donors have been lied to on a particular occasion, and if so, when?
An example of this would be errors or misconduct in completing past projects.
When I asked Anna about the coordination between SIAI and FHI, something like “Do you talk enough with each other that you wouldn’t both spend resources writing the same research paper?”, she was told me about the one time that they had in fact both presented a paper on the same topic at a conference, and that they do now coordinate more to prevent that sort of thing.
I have found that Anna and others at SIAI are honest and forthcoming.
I notice that your list is future facing.
Lies are usually about the past.
It’s very easy to not lie when talking about the future. It is much easier to “just this once” lie about the past. You can do both, for instance, by explaining that you believe a project will succeed, even while withholding information that would convince a donor otherwise.
An example of this would be errors or misconduct in completing past projects.
Lack of relevant qualifications for people SIAI plans to employ on a project.
Or administrative errors and misconduct.
Or public relations / donor outreach misconduct.
To put the question another, less abstract way, have you ever lied to a SIAI donor? Do you know of anyone affiliated with SIAI who has lied a donor?
Hypothetically, If I said I had evidence in the affirmative to the second question, how surprising would that be to you? How much money would you bet that such evidence doesn’t exist?
You’re trying very hard to get everyone to think that SIAI has lied to donors or done something equally dishonest. I agree that this is an appropriate question to discuss, but you are pursuing the matter so aggressively that I just have to ask: do you know something we don’t? Do you think that you/other donors have been lied to on a particular occasion, and if so, when?
When I asked Anna about the coordination between SIAI and FHI, something like “Do you talk enough with each other that you wouldn’t both spend resources writing the same research paper?”, she was told me about the one time that they had in fact both presented a paper on the same topic at a conference, and that they do now coordinate more to prevent that sort of thing.
I have found that Anna and others at SIAI are honest and forthcoming.
Your comment here killed the hostage.