Have you considered that maybe testifying against the company you work for and may have some personal connection to is very stressful.
I'm being serious that someone in that situation may have mixed feelings about doing the right thing vs betraying friends/bosses and how they may have contributed to wrongdoing in the testmony
Sure, but as soon as someone says "what are the odds someone with X features kills himself" - well I didn't invoke the statistical argument did I?
The answer is: it's right within the profile. You don't get to say "what are the odds!?" and then complain about the actual statistics - as noted elsewhere in this thread, the Birthday Paradox[1] is also at play.
What are the odds of any individual whistleblower dying? Who knows. What are the odds of someone, somewhere, describable as a whisteblower dying? Fairly high if there's even a modest number of whistleblowers relative to the method of death (i.e. Boeing has dozens of whistleblower cases going, and OpenAI sheds an employee every other week who writes a critique on their blog about the company).
This same problem turns up with any discussion of vaccines and VAERS. If I simply go and wave my hand over the arm of 1,000 random people then within a year it's virtually guaranteed at least 1 of them will be dead, probably a lot more[2]. Hell, at a standard death rate of 8.1/1000, OpenAI's standing number of employees of 1,700[3] means in any given year it's pretty likely someone will die - and since "worked for OpenAI" is a one-way membership, year over year "former OpenAI employee dies" gets more and more likely.
