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> SBF seems really, really screwed. It still astonishes me how deluded he was by his own reality distortion field. He continued to incriminate himself repeated

> SBF seems really, really screwed. It still astonishes me how deluded he was by his own reality distortion field. He continued to incriminate himself repeatedly after it was clear to everybody else that he needed to stop digging the hole he was in. Just breathtaking levels of PR and legal naivete.

coldtea 3y ago
Of course. Those with good levels of PR, legal advice, and friends in power, can do worse and get a slap on the wrist.
- hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
  Who do you have in mind, specifically?
  - coldtea 3y ago
    On a second thought, nobody. All is well in this best of possible worlds and justice prevails over the rich and powerful. After all they got SBF, and that Holmes lady, didn't they? Maddoff too! Oh, they got Epstein too AND his girlfriend. Well, the guy did organize sex parties on a private island with underage girls, coke, and prostitution, and had elites, politicians, academics, even some royalty and a president or two as frequent guests, but who's counting? Why even drag them to testify? And, of course, since justice prevails you can't and shouldn't point at anyone who got through it and only got a slap on the wrist for some minor stuff, or was summarily found innocent, or had the charges thrown, or was never even charged with anything! What could they be other than innocent? Since that's the case, who would want to anger people with good PR, great legal advice, and friends in power, by making such baseless accusations? In a public forum of all places!
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golergka 3y ago
Yet one another person with 130 IQ who thinks he's 150 IQ.
- YawningAngel 3y ago
  I'm not even sure he's above average, it seems to me like he could have closed down Alameda, hired some compliance professionals to bring FTX into compliance with the law, and been a) a billionaire and b) not in jail for his trouble. He seems to be really pretty thick
  - paulpauper 3y ago
    I'm not even sure he's above average...He seems to be really pretty thick He got into MIT where he excelled and then a job at Jane Street. Even really smart people get rejected from MIT and Jane Street. he may be a fool and delusional but he's not thick .
    - networkchad 3y ago
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    - stcroixx 3y ago
      You don’t question his family connections being the reason he got into these places rather than merit?
    - telotortium 3y ago
      Yes, exactly, that's why he's 130 IQ (okay, probably a bit more) and not 150 IQ. While 130 IQ wouldn't ordinarily be good enough to get into MIT for a non-affirmative action applicant, he's the son of two prominent Stanford professors. They will have encouraged him to have academic interests and given him all the resources to appear precocious during his teenage years - research during high school is an obvious way his parents could have burnished his college application, and most research doesn't require especially high levels of intelligence, particularly at the lab assistant level that a high schooler would be employed at. Easy enough for his parents to call in some favors to get his name added to a paper. In a pinch, SBF probably indicated somewhere on his application who his parents are - not in a bombastic way, but something that the application committee would pick up on. Academics at HYPS-level schools tend to help each other out. As for Jane Street, it is a hard place to get into, but MIT is one of the few places where there's an established interview pipeline, which definitely makes it possible for a non-genius to have some a chance of passing. Before Cracking the Coding Interview, it was much harder to learn how FAANG interviews worked ahead of time - same thing applies. Saying that SBF is "average", if that means 100 IQ, is ludicrous, but SBF is merely very bright, not a genius.
crtified 3y ago
I'd be more surprised if he'd managed to reach that point without having operated under weight of great delusion. For the delusion to continue beyond Ground Zero was a given, a fait accompli of self-confirmation bias.
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DropInIn 3y ago
The big problem: Mens Rea

coldtea 3y ago

Of course. Those with good levels of PR, legal advice, and friends in power, can do worse and get a slap on the wrist.

hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
Who do you have in mind, specifically?
- coldtea 3y ago
  On a second thought, nobody. All is well in this best of possible worlds and justice prevails over the rich and powerful. After all they got SBF, and that Holmes lady, didn't they? Maddoff too! Oh, they got Epstein too AND his girlfriend. Well, the guy did organize sex parties on a private island with underage girls, coke, and prostitution, and had elites, politicians, academics, even some royalty and a president or two as frequent guests, but who's counting? Why even drag them to testify? And, of course, since justice prevails you can't and shouldn't point at anyone who got through it and only got a slap on the wrist for some minor stuff, or was summarily found innocent, or had the charges thrown, or was never even charged with anything! What could they be other than innocent? Since that's the case, who would want to anger people with good PR, great legal advice, and friends in power, by making such baseless accusations? In a public forum of all places!
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golergka 3y ago

Yet one another person with 130 IQ who thinks he's 150 IQ.

YawningAngel 3y ago
I'm not even sure he's above average, it seems to me like he could have closed down Alameda, hired some compliance professionals to bring FTX into compliance with the law, and been a) a billionaire and b) not in jail for his trouble. He seems to be really pretty thick
- paulpauper 3y ago
  I'm not even sure he's above average...He seems to be really pretty thick He got into MIT where he excelled and then a job at Jane Street. Even really smart people get rejected from MIT and Jane Street. he may be a fool and delusional but he's not thick .
  - networkchad 3y ago
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  - stcroixx 3y ago
    You don’t question his family connections being the reason he got into these places rather than merit?
  - telotortium 3y ago
    Yes, exactly, that's why he's 130 IQ (okay, probably a bit more) and not 150 IQ. While 130 IQ wouldn't ordinarily be good enough to get into MIT for a non-affirmative action applicant, he's the son of two prominent Stanford professors. They will have encouraged him to have academic interests and given him all the resources to appear precocious during his teenage years - research during high school is an obvious way his parents could have burnished his college application, and most research doesn't require especially high levels of intelligence, particularly at the lab assistant level that a high schooler would be employed at. Easy enough for his parents to call in some favors to get his name added to a paper. In a pinch, SBF probably indicated somewhere on his application who his parents are - not in a bombastic way, but something that the application committee would pick up on. Academics at HYPS-level schools tend to help each other out. As for Jane Street, it is a hard place to get into, but MIT is one of the few places where there's an established interview pipeline, which definitely makes it possible for a non-genius to have some a chance of passing. Before Cracking the Coding Interview, it was much harder to learn how FAANG interviews worked ahead of time - same thing applies. Saying that SBF is "average", if that means 100 IQ, is ludicrous, but SBF is merely very bright, not a genius.

crtified 3y ago

I'd be more surprised if he'd managed to reach that point without having operated under weight of great delusion. For the delusion to continue beyond Ground Zero was a given, a fait accompli of self-confirmation bias.

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DropInIn 3y ago

The big problem: Mens Rea