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It looks like it? At least from a cursory reading of the press release...which goes against everything that has been said up to this point. The hilarity continu
by halfmatthalfcat 4y ago
It looks like it? At least from a cursory reading of the press release...which goes against everything that has been said up to this point. The hilarity continues.
- leereeves 4y agoYeah, just yesterday SBF tweeted: > This was about FTX International. FTX US, the US based exchange that accepts Americans, was not financially impacted by this shitshow. https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709195892195329 https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709195892195329
- boeingUH60 4y agoThis guy is such a serial liar...I wonder why he doesn't have a lawyer advising him to avoid making statements on a public platform at this point.
- moogly 4y agoBecause no one can tell who are real accounts and parody accounts on Twitter right now.
- jjulius 4y agoIt absolutely blows my mind; if this[1] failure of an attempt at a "get out of jail free" disclaimer is something you feel the need to write out so poorly, and in all caps, after your diatribe, maybe - MAYBE - you shouldn't have said a goddamn word. [1]https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709199067295749 https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709199067295749
- sillysaurusx 4y agoYeah! That was the tweet that made me suspect an anxiety attack / some other health condition. The weirdest part is that all 23 tweets were posted simultaneously at 8:13am. So he had the opportunity to say nothing; he could’ve clicked “save draft” instead of “tweet all”.
- chasd00 4y agoheh how close together are the "save draft" and "tweet all" buttons?
- boeingUH60 4y ago"Your honor, whatever I've said should not be used against me in the court of law"...I can't make up this parody if I was a scriptwriter. Here's another...SBF has stepped down, and his replacement is John J. Ray III, a famous bankruptcy lawyer who helped clean up Enron...yes, that Enron.
- Scoundreller 4y agoI bet is motto is the same as the one that gets these companies in trouble: “pay yourself first”.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoMust be tough being a fiction writer these days.
- dylan604 4y agoI'm waiting for the Law&Order ripped from the headlines episode. Who will be the murder victim in the opening scene though? DUN DUN!!!
- nobody9999 4y ago>I'm waiting for the Law&Order ripped from the headlines episode. Who will be the murder victim in the opening scene though? DUN DUN!!! I suppose the writers could mine[0] this for inspiration. [0] Pun intended.
- perihelions 4y agoTwitter should add Miranda warnings to the before-you-tweet prompts. It would be a reasonable use-case for ML classification.
- dylan604 4y agoThis guy is just taking a play from the same book Trump, Musk, Kanye, etc use. Only, he's turned it up to an 11. It'd be a funny skit to see a Trump character reading this guy's tweets/interviews and saying "whoa"
- UncleMeat 4y agoEspecially on twitter, where by default you only see the first few tweets of a chain. "Here is a bunch of information about the ongoing potentially criminal collapse of my company - oh by the way I'm a bad dev so some of what I said above might be wrong, don't act on this information."
- tshadley 4y agohttps://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1591091209157898241 https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1591091209157898241
- selimthegrim 4y agoHis parents are probably going to invoice him for legal advice at this point.
- bmitc 4y agoHis parents are law professors at Stanford. It’s crazy. You think they’d make a call and tell him to just stop.
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- sillysaurusx 4y agoThat’s the one. Thanks for linking it. Was he in denial? Lying? Clueless? I have no idea at this point. He seemed earnest and genuine, but everything he’s saying is the exact opposite of reality. Maybe he was having an anxiety attack. I had one once, and it completely sucks. It ruins your ability to form logical thoughts. (It’s rare to see someone so powerful be so confidently mistaken. The confidence is the part I’m struggling to figure out. There doesn’t seem to be much benefit for him to knowingly lie about FTX US not being impacted, so it seemed like something else was going on.)
- ahelwer 4y agoIf he comes out the other side massively wealthy, then what was there to be "mistaken" about? You're extending an incredibly generous quantity of sympathy to someone that has absolutely not earned even a little of it. Speculating that he had an anxiety attack! I mean, really.
- sillysaurusx 4y agoIt’s not really sympathy though. From a game theory perspective, what benefit did he get from saying FTX US wouldn’t be impacted? It seems like there was negative benefit: not only did it accomplish nothing in practice, but it couldn’t have helped even theoretically. So when someone does something like that, I can’t help but speculate.
- ahelwer 4y agoIt kept some number of people from withdrawing their funds from FTX US yesterday, leaving more money in the pot to return to other stakeholders. This has nothing to do with game theory, what would that even mean!?
- shigawire 4y agoIt's like saying modulo or orthogonal - people just parrot these words on HackerNews
- durpkingOP 4y agoWrong. FTX US is the US based exchange that accepts Americans. You gotta always read the latest SBF tweets because he consistently says 1 thing then the next day does the opposite.