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Why would they send such an inexperienced reporter to interview someone like this who has manipulated even experienced people?
by bmitc 4y ago
Why would they send such an inexperienced reporter to interview someone like this who has manipulated even experienced people?
- carlivar 4y agoAre you overlooking the obvious: that it is not a very good newspaper at some things?
- gasull 4y agoOr that the NYT and the connected elites have an agenda? https://twitter.com/WakeToBitcoin/status/1591542267742937089 https://twitter.com/WakeToBitcoin/status/1591542267742937089
- notch656a 4y agoThe whole debacle reeks of someone who is used to being the smartest person in the room and using it for manipulation. Unfortunately he has reached a point where intelligence is no longer needed to see the end result (thousands cannot withdraw from their accounts), and no amount of manipulation is going to change that. The nonsensical tweets are like watching a sociopath short-circuit when he gets caught in his own trap.
- googlryas 4y agoI'd rather like to know why sophisticated people were easily manipulated by him, but he seemed to set off alarm bells all the time in unsophisticated people(like myself, but also many others)
- notch656a 4y agoI have a theory that certain successful people have a very acute ability to grasp opportunities while downplaying downides/risks, which sometimes can be a very successful life strategy. The average person may be more in tune to these risks as our life depends on only a few paychecks of runway before homelessness.
- hackerlight 4y agoWhat alarm bells, specifically? I didn't see it. He was someone who had passed through well-known institutions like MIT and Jane Street, with a family reputation he would have wanted to protect, had a team around him with known pedigree (which plays into them wanting to preserve their reputation), was obviously smart having been math olympiad as a kid, and talked the talk of Bill Gates-esque altruism. I found FTX and SBF less suspicious than all the other crypto personalities, at least.
- cr__ 4y agoOne alarm bell for me was that he was pitching a product that is a Ponzi scheme that doesn’t bear any scrutiny.
- hackerlight 4y agoHow did you know it was a Ponzi before this info came out? Looked like a regular crypto exchange to me.