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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug by sigil on Sunday November 05, 2023 @01:08PM (#38153740)
> On November 11, FTX fell apart and was revealed as a giant scam. Suddenly everyone hated effective altruists. Publications that had been feting us a few months before pivoted to saying they knew we were evil all along. I practiced rehearsing the words “I have never donated to charity, and if I did, I certainly wouldn’t care whether it was effective or not”.

From Scott Alexander’s post on why, as an EA, he donated a kidney. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-left-kidney

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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug by letmeinhere on Sunday November 05, 2023 @02:46PM (#38154876)
This guy has a huge persecution complex, remember how he reacted to a largely positive press profile that was going to publish his name?
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug by DisgracePlacard on Sunday November 05, 2023 @03:11PM (#38155140)
I remember! He was happy about it -- until he found out that the NYT was going to doxx him and publish his name, which would've likely had highly negative effects for himself and his psychiatric patients. The NYT didn't care, of course -- and they attempted to cover him a lot more negatively, as a result of the backlash they received.
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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug by staticman2 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @03:23PM (#38155265)
That's an interesting take. An alternative take is he desperately sought to become a public intellectual for personal reasons- while simultaneously believing this would hurt his patients, and declared this the New York Times's problem.

I thought he regularly preaches the presumption of good faith, even when discussing some of the most radical people in the world, interesting how that's not extended to the NY Times for the sin of... using a real name policy?

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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug by tickerticker on Sunday November 05, 2023 @04:28PM (#38155837)
Doxxing is not good faith
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