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The obvious conclusion here is that SBF is just a cynical but skilled manipulator. But then why send these DMs at all - surely a skilled manipulator would know
by Imnimo 4y ago
The obvious conclusion here is that SBF is just a cynical but skilled manipulator. But then why send these DMs at all - surely a skilled manipulator would know better, or could at least present himself in a positive light?
Maybe all those stimulants have taken their toll. Or he's totally given up.
- expazl 4y ago> surely a skilled manipulator would know better, or could at least present himself in a positive light? My bet is that he lost his back country. He was until recently the front-person for a hugely successful enterprise who donated money extremely broadly. Back then he could have yelled "I run a goddamn ponzi scheme" into the loudspeaker of huge credible news outlets and they would have edited to "Master genius is going to revolutionize everything through revolutionary crypto". He's speaking into the same loudspeaker because he still thinks the message that got through back then was due to his skills as a communicator and not because... they where all on the receiving end of the cash flow he was throwing around every which direction. But obviously anyone who was receiving money back and writing favorable about him back then will do their best to distance themselves now. Case in point, quote from article: (Disclosure: This August, Bankman-Fried’s philanthropic family foundation, Building a Stronger Future, awarded Vox’s Future Perfect a grant for a 2023 reporting project. That project is now on pause.) Which basically says they where on the payroll. Obviously they aren't going to pay the money back. You have to wonder what great articles about SBF they would have printed in a completely unbiased fashion if not for the implosion.
- Quarrelsome 4y agoare we agreeing with his point that morality comes second to winning?
- sdwr 4y agoGreat take. Off topic, but I really love the post-history vibes from this guy, elon, even trump a bit. There's something beautiful about living in public, and not hiding your flaws. No PR or corpo speak or defensible positions, just rawdogging life. And not even behind the 7-11 dumpster, right out there in broad daylight.
- yeet_yeet_yeet 4y agoThere are consequences of this. For sbf, orange man, elmo, maybe not yet, but there will be. Which is why most people stay in line.
- ALittleLight 4y agoI just saw an explanation for this on twitter. Basically, suppose SBF actually believes in effective altruism, his brand of it at least, and that he is a skilled manipulator. First premise seems iffy, but the second pretty sound, but let us run with it to see where it goes. Why would skilled manipulator effective altruist SBF do this? He made a big gamble using customer funds to try and keep his business running. This is kind of like his coinflip thought experiment where he would risk the world to gain a second world. His gamble blows up and he loses everything. What's the most effective thing he can do now? Fall on his own sword, discredit himself as an evil charlatan, in an attempt to try and save face for the philosophy he actually believes in. "No, I'm not really an effective altruist. I'm actually just evil and dumb. Hehe." I would assign very low probability to this - but it is an explanation that explains, to some extent, his actions here.