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This is the strangest story. Sam is clearly autistic, highly intelligent and was likely suffering form a variety of other maladies, many of them [I had thought]
by wonderwonder 3y ago
This is the strangest story. Sam is clearly autistic, highly intelligent and was likely suffering form a variety of other maladies, many of them [I had thought] induced by massive overuse of stimulants. Either he is still abusing drugs or the delusions of grandeur / smarter than everyone else perception is just part of him.
As soon as the entire thing broke I expected him to be on a plane to Dubai like the 3AC founders. He didn't and kept insisting he could fix it. He was actively seeking to raise funds. It was baffling, who would give $ to someone that just liquidated billions? Why would he stick around? He likely has many millions hidden in a variety of wallets. I am not sure he fully understands what he has done and why it is wrong. This could be narccissm, could be something else. With that said, he broke a million laws and cost regular people billions. He probably needs to go to jail.
I always saw him, Vitalik and to a lesser extent Cobie [in a different way] and Hoskinson as part of the crypto brain trust. He was definitely the sketchiest of them though.
- nonrepeating 3y agoBased on some of his more candid interviews, especially ones shortly after the collapse, it seems SBF doesn't have much of a moral center. Whether or not he's also autistic, I can't say, but he clearly does consider himself to be superior to most everyone else, and his altruism was anything but sincere. One example: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie...
- wonderwonder 3y agoI'm open to the fact that he could very well be a psycho or socio path.
- tjpnz 3y agoHighly intelligent? How?
- ramraj07 3y agoHe got into Jane street.
- tjpnz 3y agoAnd he also got into jail for not knowing when to keep his mouth shut, and may soon be getting into prison for being the ringleader in a highly unsophisticated ponzi scheme.
- theptip 3y agoIntelligence 20, Wisdom 3.
- wonderwonder 3y agoPretty good summary
- stevefan1999 3y agobut aren't intelligence and wisdom positively correlated?
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- SilasX 3y agoThis is why I’ be careful to say “analytically intelligent” in cases like this.
- tjpnz 3y agoDidn't see much of that going on either where FTX was concerned.
- wonderwonder 3y agoHe graduated from MIT with a degree in Physics and a minor in math. That's not nothing.
- LiquidSky 3y ago>This is the strangest story. Not if you reject the premise that he's "highly intelligent", though this would mean questioning the hallowed Hacker News axiom of "rich = smart".
- wonderwonder 3y agoHe graduated from MIT with a degree in Physics and a minor in math. That's not nothing. Then he built himself up to be the 41st richest American before the age of 30. That takes a certain type of intelligence, no matter what negative opinions we hold on the guy.
- batch12 3y agoClearly autistic? How did you come to this diagnosis?
- wonderwonder 3y agoWatch his interviews, he comes off as autistic to me. Open to the fact I could be wrong but he is definitely sitting on some sort of spectrum. I am willing to accept that it could also just be all the drugs he was on.
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