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He was basically describing a variation of the “have you stopped beating your wife” parable. Hope that helps.

VladTheImpalor 3y ago
I was disabusing him of the notion that he might be the smartest person in that room. Smartness is across various axes, for one, but mainly, the presumptuousness and the sheer confidence of the assumption rubbed me the wrong way, not so much the content of the argument.
- hef19898 3y ago
  And that attotude usually doesn't go well in court. Or meetings with, how did OP put it, "normies".
- gilleain 3y ago
  Agreed. I think that some people - SBF included - could take to heart the idea that sometimes they are not the smartest person in the room. Or even that being 'smart' is not the always the most important thing to be at every point in time.
gilleain 3y ago
Also known as a 'loaded question' (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question>) - I really don't think that questions like "Did Alameda have an essentially unbounded line of credit?" are all that loaded. SBF simply did not want to answer the questions.
kabes 3y ago
Which is not at all relatable to SBFs answer regarding the private jet
fsckboy 3y ago
it's really not "have you stopped beating your wife", it's much more subtle than that.
sleepybrett 3y ago
Courts don't want to hear the equivalent of the Ship of Theseus in answer to every question.
- fsckboy 3y ago
  Nor did I want to give such an answer, I just wanted to understand the question so I could give the short answer that was accurate. I explained how giving the short obvious answer screwed me. You have to grasp the story I told in totality if you want to render judgements based on how smart you know everybody is. Every sentence I included was for a reason, it fits together like a puzzle. There were many other facts I left out because they were unnecessary. But for some reason, you simply look for slim reasons to attack. smh

I was disabusing him of the notion that he might be the smartest person in that room. Smartness is across various axes, for one, but mainly, the presumptuousness and the sheer confidence of the assumption rubbed me the wrong way, not so much the content of the argument.

hef19898 3y ago
And that attotude usually doesn't go well in court. Or meetings with, how did OP put it, "normies".
gilleain 3y ago
Agreed. I think that some people - SBF included - could take to heart the idea that sometimes they are not the smartest person in the room. Or even that being 'smart' is not the always the most important thing to be at every point in time.

gilleain 3y ago

Also known as a 'loaded question' (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question>) - I really don't think that questions like "Did Alameda have an essentially unbounded line of credit?" are all that loaded. SBF simply did not want to answer the questions.

kabes 3y ago

Which is not at all relatable to SBFs answer regarding the private jet

fsckboy 3y ago

it's really not "have you stopped beating your wife", it's much more subtle than that.

sleepybrett 3y ago

Courts don't want to hear the equivalent of the Ship of Theseus in answer to every question.

fsckboy 3y ago
Nor did I want to give such an answer, I just wanted to understand the question so I could give the short answer that was accurate. I explained how giving the short obvious answer screwed me. You have to grasp the story I told in totality if you want to render judgements based on how smart you know everybody is. Every sentence I included was for a reason, it fits together like a puzzle. There were many other facts I left out because they were unnecessary. But for some reason, you simply look for slim reasons to attack. smh