‘Now that SBF’s biggest endeavor has turned out to be a giant scam’ I’m not sure that is quite right. As far as I can tell, the main definite issue that has been proven is that he stole money when he lost money, which is not quite the same as the endeavor itself being a scam from the beginning. Not that that is any morally better, and it was so deeply, deeply morally wrong that I strongly suspect SBF has done other very bad things, but it’s good to be precise I think. (I agree that Will had a severe conflict of interest, but I do think we have to stress that there’s no strong direct evidence of wrongdoing on his part yet, and that getting rich people to fund you is a standard charity/​political party model used by everyone, even if known to be problematic and even if Will and SBF seem to have been unusually connected.)
‘Now that SBF’s biggest endeavor has turned out to be a giant scam’ I’m not sure that is quite right. As far as I can tell, the main definite issue that has been proven is that he stole money when he lost money, which is not quite the same as the endeavor itself being a scam from the beginning. Not that that is any morally better, and it was so deeply, deeply morally wrong that I strongly suspect SBF has done other very bad things, but it’s good to be precise I think. (I agree that Will had a severe conflict of interest, but I do think we have to stress that there’s no strong direct evidence of wrongdoing on his part yet, and that getting rich people to fund you is a standard charity/​political party model used by everyone, even if known to be problematic and even if Will and SBF seem to have been unusually connected.)