He’s a smart sociopath and the two things collide. I wouldn’t say SBF is dumb, just that he was intelligent enough to get a crypto startup out of the ground, t

He’s a smart sociopath and the two things collide. I wouldn’t say SBF is dumb, just that he was intelligent enough to get a crypto startup out of the ground, then he was sociopathic enough that the business ended up being a giant fraud machine. He’s not like dumb dumb. It’s that his sociopathic tendencies prevent him of doing or continuing in any serious endeavour without taking supreme advantage of it. He was smart enough to make a business, but since he’s a sociopath he couldn’t deal with the fact that that business had to be reasonably honest, because to him people and money are just tools for him to get what he wants. Im convinced by the trial and other info he is actually an EA, he just has a radically different understanding of what that means than you or me. For him, killing 500 people to save 500,000 is a no brainier, the same way stealing from millions of customers to save a company that can help tens of millions is just obviously correct. He doesn’t care because he can’t care. It’s not in his DNA.