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Re:The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened? (pa... by danaris on Thursday November 10, 2022 @01:49PM (#33551224)
It doesn't even have to do that in an objective, measurable sense. It just has to do that from your perspective—meaning that any harms you can ignore don't count, and any potential good you can convince yourself you could do in the future because of it do.
Re:The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened? (pa... by jasonwatkinspdx on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:10PM (#33553420)
Yeah, I'm glad to see someone saying this. Something that bugs me about EA is it pattern matches to a lot of the same performative behavior I grew up around with evangelical extremists. Your hypothetical good forgives your very real misbehavior in fact.

There's also just the fundamental stupidity of thinking you can reduce something as complex as human morals and ethics to a karmic checking account balance...