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I listened to her interview on the Free Press, and to be totally honest, the way it was discussed does feel “gossipy.” [0]

One thing that rubs me the wrong way is her decision to wait to share this information.

When asked that by Weiss during the podcast, her response was effectively, “because AI is getting so powerful, and everyone should know what these companies are doing.”

Don’t get me wrong - I believe what she claims to have happened, and I sympathize with her difficult experience at the company. But what she discussed doesn’t feel like it’s very substantive beyond what could already be deduced or observed.

[0] https://www.thefp.com/p/meet-sarah-wynn-williams-facebooks

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Assuming positive intent, many times the reason for a long wait is to allow NDAs to expire.

Fair point. I didn’t hear her mention this in the podcast, but maybe she does in the book.

Some NDAs can effectively be life-long. (It's the non-solicits that are time-bound.)

That’s true. Not all jurisdictions place maximum time limits on NDAs. The ones I’ve lived in do, and I personally won’t sign an NDA that doesn’t expire.

It’s easier to be principled when you can afford to not have to find work anymore. People who publically criticize tech billionaires tend to not have an easy time with that.

There’s no way to know, as someone who doesn’t know the writer, what her truest motivations are, but it’s probably a good bet that whatever she does she’ll never wield power and influence over the lives of so many people as Mark, who’s dedicated his life to extracting as many resources as he can for his personal empire.

> But what she discussed doesn’t feel like it’s very substantive beyond what could already be deduced or observed.

There is still value in having a primary source for it. Even if it's not news to you.

Even on HN when you see an industry open-secret discussed, you'll occasionally have one sub-thread saying "you must be a paranoid conspiracy theorist to even suggest that" while another is the "everyone be knowing that already" sub-thread.

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