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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary o... by ecshafer on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:41PM (#37094398)
MIT grad that worked at Jane Street and made a Billion dollar “tech” company are things a lot of people would use as evidence of being intelligent.
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary o... by brvsft on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:52PM (#37094508)
Building a company based on fraud is potentially more of a marker of ruthlessness over intelligence, but certainly we don't know with certainty, and it is likely a combination of the two.
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary o... by ecshafer on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:54PM (#37094525)
I would agree. He was definitely connected, and definitely smart. Anyone would drive in such a position could make a successful company. But he was ruthless and also has no moral compass, so he became a crypto fraudster.
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary o... by JohnFen on Friday August 11, 2023 @06:38PM (#37094896)
Those things generally indicate that a person isn't stupid, but they don't indicate that a person is unusually intelligent.
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