Hopefully out of all this debacle that rationalist community will be brought down a peg or two (including kumbaya pie in the sky stuff like Effective Altruism).
It was all funny when these people were portrayed in TV shows, not so funny when that mindset is behind billions of dollars of people's money getting defrauded.
https://twitter.com/0xhonky/status/1591630071915483136
https://twitter.com/autismcapital/status/1591601671943393280
(From the first tweet, it doesn’t seem like anyone in the conversation has read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(probability_theory...)