I am confused why people are defensive of @Sam Bankman-Fried. I am fond of him as person and he was gracious to me personally. I even checked up on him after the crash. But that doesn’t change the fact he did a massive crime.
It doesn’t seem hard to say that I want Sam to be well as a person (and Caroline, Nishad, Gary and anyone else close to them) whilst also saying this was a huge and deliberate fraud. And I don’t even think we need to have discussions about utilitarianism. Why trade so sloppily? Why hide it for such a long time from anyone who could have given better advice[1]. I don’t get the temptation to say ‘Sam was trying his best’.
Thanks for writing this.
I am confused why people are defensive of @Sam Bankman-Fried. I am fond of him as person and he was gracious to me personally. I even checked up on him after the crash. But that doesn’t change the fact he did a massive crime.
It doesn’t seem hard to say that I want Sam to be well as a person (and Caroline, Nishad, Gary and anyone else close to them) whilst also saying this was a huge and deliberate fraud. And I don’t even think we need to have discussions about utilitarianism. Why trade so sloppily? Why hide it for such a long time from anyone who could have given better advice[1]. I don’t get the temptation to say ‘Sam was trying his best’.
unless many here are lying about not knowing, which I doubt