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It’s a little bit innocent to think that SBF isn’t intelligent; he’s extremely adept at lying and manipulating. And on top of that, intelligent enough to create
by zadler 4y ago
It’s a little bit innocent to think that SBF isn’t intelligent; he’s extremely adept at lying and manipulating. And on top of that, intelligent enough to create a large crypto exchange. It’s his morals and impulses that got him into trouble.
- acdha 4y agoHe’s the latest example of why many RPGs have separate stats for intelligence and wisdom. He’s clearly not stupid but his lawyers must be sitting at their desks sobbing “stop giving interviews!”
- kelnos 4y agoI was thinking something similar, that being intelligent doesn't mean you're smart, but I think "wisdom" says it better.
- acdha 4y agoI won’t claim it’s an original idea but … wow, would I have snickered at an author for laying on too thick if he’d been a character in a novel.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y ago> He’s clearly not stupid but his lawyers must be sitting at their desks sobbing “stop giving interviews!” TBH I don't think the interviews hurt him much, and I think more than likely they are a strategy trying to reduce his culpability. The common thread among all his interviews is "I'm really sorry for being such an idiot", basically trying to play stupid to make it difficult to prove intent.
- acdha 4y agoI’d look at it from the other direction: how does an interview help him? Nothing he says is going to keep him out of a courtroom and he’ll have time to present his version there, so I’m not seeing any upside to potentially saying something which the prosecution can use, find a lead from, or simply point to as evidence of duplicity — immediately pivoting from “I’m a genius who’ll stabilize this out of control field” to “I had no idea what was going on and ignored my staff” just days after being caught is going to be a hard sell.
- netheril96 4y agoWell, the other possibility is that he has high charisma and low intelligence.
- shapefrog 4y agoI tend to use the classical definition of charisma - in which case his charisma stat is 0.