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I'd love to know what his parents think of what he's doing. They're law professors at Stanford; they have to be aware of how utterly stupid this is, don't they?
by timmytokyo 4y ago
I'd love to know what his parents think of what he's doing. They're law professors at Stanford; they have to be aware of how utterly stupid this is, don't they?
- yessirwhatever 4y ago[dead]
- easytiger 4y agoHave you spent much time with humanities academics? I would make no such assumptions.
- __derek__ 4y agoThey're lawyers and law professors, not humanities academics.
- wmf 4y agoHis father is reportedly conflict-averse to the extreme and his mother wrote an article saying free will doesn't exist therefore people aren't responsible for their crimes.
- fidgewidge 4y agoI wonder if those two facts are connected.
- notahacker 4y agoI imagine his parents, in addition to giving him standard "don't do public speeches about the bad things you've done" lawyer advice, probably also wouldn't have recommended he drop out of Jane Street, make large arbitrage bets on crypto, set up a exchange without proper controls and take money out of that to bet on other cryptos. He may or may not be on very good terms with them, but I don't think he's been following their advice on big decisions for a while...
- pgwhalen 4y agoHe’s literally living in their basement, he can’t be on that bad of terms with them.
- grey-area 4y agoHis parents were signatories on a beach front house bought with 10m of FTX funds. That’s all you need to know about his parents.