Can you imagine how you’d judge it if, rather than my writing it as a joke, Naomi Novik had gone online and sincerely tried to accept blame for FTX’s fall, because she thought she hadn’t been careful enough to put messages about good corporate governance and careful accounting into her fantasy novels, and Novik had talked about how she was planning to donate an appropriate portion of her Scholomance book royalties back to FTX’s ruined customers?
Even so, I’m still recommending people to read Terry Pratchett instead of Novik. Something something low probability, large impact. But seriously, I think the problem is less how SBF self-identified with EA, and more the way EAs saw him as The Hero.
Anyway, maybe EAs do have a problem of egocentrism.
Even so, I’m still recommending people to read Terry Pratchett instead of Novik. Something something low probability, large impact.
But seriously, I think the problem is less how SBF self-identified with EA, and more the way EAs saw him as The Hero.
Anyway, maybe EAs do have a problem of egocentrism.