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For a multitude of reasons, Lewis is an unreliable narrator...
by greedo 3y ago
For a multitude of reasons, Lewis is an unreliable narrator...
- infecto 3y agoYes, leave only an accusation without supporting facts or ideas.
- arcticbull 3y agoI lost a lot of respect for Lewis over the book. He gave a wildly charitable and apologetic take on SBF's blatant fraud and incompetence. I'd suggest reading it (or watching any related interviews with Lewis) -- but I don't think this is a particularly unpopular take. Comes up in most (all?) reviews, like this one, where the subtitle reads: > The Moneyball author develops a misguided soft spot for fallen crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried It reads like, with full knowledge now of what was really happening, that Lewis ate up all the lies and baloney he was fed the whole time he was interviewing SBF. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/25/going-infinite-by-michael-lewis-review-falling-for-the-antihero https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/25/going-infinite...
- loeg 3y agoJust the first google result but anyone paying any attention is familiar with how stupid the Lewis story around SBF is: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/how-michael-lewis-got-duped-by-sam-bankman-fried.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/how-michael-lewis-go... There are myriad other extremely easy to find criticisms of this particular Lewis book (and of his other books, too).
- infecto 3y agoI am full aware of what some of the commentary was and have read the book myself. I don’t like SBF and I am not the fan of most of the books written by Lewis. I just expect more quality from a comment here, if you dont want to share the “multitude of reasons”, dont make the comment. Easy.
- greedo 3y agoSorry, I stopped being a "citations needed" responder a while ago. You can google for it pretty easily. TLDR, Lewis has been very friendly with everyone he writes about. Whether it's SBF or Tuohys from The Blind Side, he's shown a lack of objectivity, to put it mildly.
- infecto 3y agoSorry I stopped being a low effort comment kind of person. You shared an opinion, it’s not up to me to google it because your perspective is different than what might be found in a google search. If you don’t have interest in sharing your opinion don’t post a low quality comment.
- maxbond 3y agoJust ask nicely. "Could you provide a source for that claim?" No one is owed a citation in casual conversation; you're not holding them to an agreed upon standard, you're asking for a favor. So it's better to be polite and not escalate from a conversation to a debate or argument.
- infecto 3y agoSorry no. If you are going to share an opinion at least share why instead of saying “multitude of reasons”. It’s like any other low effort comment that adds nothing.
- maxbond 3y agoPlease consider that your comment was also low effort, but turned the conversation in a more argumentative direction. To be frank with you, that's worse than a low effort comment that adds nothing; it detracts. It's better to downvote and/or flag such comments without responding than to respond while raising the temperature of the discussion.