C, Neither. The obvious interpretation is exactly what he said—people ultimately don’t care whether you maintained their standard of ‘ethical’ as long as you win. Which means that as far as talking about other people’s ethics, it’s all PR, regardless of how ethical you’re being by your own standards.
(I basically concur. Success earns massive amounts of social capital, and that social capital can buy a whole lot of forgiveness. Whether it also comes with literal capital which literally buys forgiveness is almost immaterial next to that.)
So he’s said essentially nothing about his own ethics and whether he believes he stuck to them. Later elaboration strongly suggests he considered his actions ‘sketchy’ but doesn’t even say that outright. This is entirely consistent with SBF believing that he never did anything wrong on purpose.
Whether you think that belief is true, false but reasonable, or totally delusionary, is a separate matter. Just based on this interview I’d say “false but reasonable”, but there’s a lot of unsubstantiated claims of a history of lying that I haven’t evaluated.
C, Neither. The obvious interpretation is exactly what he said—people ultimately don’t care whether you maintained their standard of ‘ethical’ as long as you win. Which means that as far as talking about other people’s ethics, it’s all PR, regardless of how ethical you’re being by your own standards.
(I basically concur. Success earns massive amounts of social capital, and that social capital can buy a whole lot of forgiveness. Whether it also comes with literal capital which literally buys forgiveness is almost immaterial next to that.)
So he’s said essentially nothing about his own ethics and whether he believes he stuck to them. Later elaboration strongly suggests he considered his actions ‘sketchy’ but doesn’t even say that outright. This is entirely consistent with SBF believing that he never did anything wrong on purpose.
Whether you think that belief is true, false but reasonable, or totally delusionary, is a separate matter. Just based on this interview I’d say “false but reasonable”, but there’s a lot of unsubstantiated claims of a history of lying that I haven’t evaluated.