Re:Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't recall
by vkou on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:23PM
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> “Average” people fall for bullshit all the time.
Average people fall for bullshit all the time when the charismatic bullshit artist is able to spin the setting, facts, and narrative.
The rules around a criminal trial are designed in such a way to give prosecutors plenty of opportunity to shut that down. And prosecutors are very, very experienced at playing in that arena - far moreso than even a serial bullshitter is.
Also, there's a lot of selection bias that goes into being a victim of fraud. It's true that some kind of fraud will work on just about anybody, but no particular kind of fraud is guaranteed to work on a particular person. Jury selection is semi-random, it's not pulled from the pool of people who respond affirmatively to Nigerian Prince spam-emails.
Average people fall for bullshit all the time when the charismatic bullshit artist is able to spin the setting, facts, and narrative.
The rules around a criminal trial are designed in such a way to give prosecutors plenty of opportunity to shut that down. And prosecutors are very, very experienced at playing in that arena - far moreso than even a serial bullshitter is.
Also, there's a lot of selection bias that goes into being a victim of fraud. It's true that some kind of fraud will work on just about anybody, but no particular kind of fraud is guaranteed to work on a particular person. Jury selection is semi-random, it's not pulled from the pool of people who respond affirmatively to Nigerian Prince spam-emails.