[klabb3]

> A particularly eyebrow-raising claim […] is that the 40-year-old CEO has claimed he was employed as a spy for the British government. He also insists that he's spoken to more than one prime minister about building AI for nation-states.

> Earlier this summer, Forbes published an exposé that highlighted his "history of exaggeration," and in its opening lines notes that Mostaque's claim that he has a master's degree from Oxford didn't hold up to scrutiny.

Those statements are very precise and can really only be true or false. I can’t verify the veracity, but if they’re false, he is lying, not embellishing or “exaggerating”.

There is a forgiving attitude towards compulsive liars in tech startups, and perhaps business in general, but that’s a cultural decease. There is no reason for journalists to play along in shifting the Overton window way into this kafkaesque relativistic worldview dictated by a small group of sociopaths and their enablers.

[emadm]

The spy thing was puzzling then realised it was likely because it my previous work on counter extremism some elements of which were public and they didn’t bother checking

https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1689376585047003136?s=4...

Masters degree was because I didn’t pay for postage for it to be sent which they acknowledged but spun, got it now

https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1682124779426553856?s=4...