No worries about the strong response – I misjudged how my words would be interpreted. I’m glad we sorted that out.
Regarding overthinking ethical stuff and SBF: Unfortunately I fear you’ve missed my point. First of all, I wasn’t really talking about any fraud/negligence that he may have committed. As I said in the 2nd paragraph:
Regarding his ignorance and his intentions, he might be telling the truth. Suppose he is: suppose he never condoned doing sketchy things as a means he could justify by some expected greater good. Where then is the borderline moral nihilism coming from? Note that it’s saying “all the right shibboleths” that he spoke of as mere means to an end, not the doing of sketchy things.
My subject was his attitude/comments towards ethics. Second, my diagnosis was not that:
SBF’s problems with ethics came from careful debate in business ethics and then missing a decimal point in the relevant calculations.
My point was that it’s getting too comfortable approaching ethics like a careful calculation that can be dangerous in the first place – no matter how accurate the calculation is. It’s not about missing some decimal points. Please reread this section if you’re interested. I updated the end of it with a reference to a clear falsifiable claim.
No worries about the strong response – I misjudged how my words would be interpreted. I’m glad we sorted that out.
Regarding overthinking ethical stuff and SBF:
Unfortunately I fear you’ve missed my point. First of all, I wasn’t really talking about any fraud/negligence that he may have committed. As I said in the 2nd paragraph:
My subject was his attitude/comments towards ethics. Second, my diagnosis was not that:
My point was that it’s getting too comfortable approaching ethics like a careful calculation that can be dangerous in the first place – no matter how accurate the calculation is. It’s not about missing some decimal points. Please reread this section if you’re interested. I updated the end of it with a reference to a clear falsifiable claim.