Re:Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’
by gemstones on Friday December 23, 2022 @01:18PM
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I get that this is technically not how bail works - it just turns out that how bail works is stupid.
> people just have a very wrong mental model, based on a bad generalization from an already slightly wrong mental model of the terms when an arms-length bail agent provides surety to the court for the defendant, of what that means.
Are you familiar with the "please don't sneer" guideline?
Re:Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’
by maxbond on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:00PM
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I don't think "please don't sneer" means "forego all metacommentary," and I didn't interpret this as particularly sneering or mean or rude. Cursory inspection of dang's citing this rule seems to be really broad, really rude snark, I don't think this comment fits the pattern I'm seeing there.
I'd propose our discourse would be hobbled if we couldn't make comments like, "many people in this discussion have misconception X". But perhaps "very wrong mental model" was too many superlatives and "misunderstanding" would've been sufficient.
It is, in fact, a $250M bail bond, people just have a very wrong mental model, based on a bad generalization from an already slightly wrong mental model of the terms when an arms-length bail agent provides surety to the court for the defendant, of what that means.