These guy think they're a lot more important anf have more clout so they're making it a blog post instead.
There was a recent blog about an epidemic of Neotoddlerism that explained that four attributes that we have as children and should grow out of contribute to cluster B personality disorders:
- Attention seeking
- Entitlement
- Grandiosity
- Impulsivity
This seems like just attention seeking, possibly with grandiosity but I don't know the author so I don't know.
OpenAI seems to always be in the public eye for one or the other reasons and after the CEO firing episode, any staff departure(including policy researchers) can/will be speculated in the media as a fallout with management if they remain silent.
May be they just want to preempt any speculations.