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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by polygamous_bat on Thursday March 28, 2024 @02:48PM (#39855821)
> He got caught up in it all and you bend, bend, bend until the next thing you know..

This denies him agency. Probably a better hypothesis is that he was a raging narcissist who thought he could swindle everyone with none the wiser, without realizing how transparent his fraud was.

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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by caturopath on Thursday March 28, 2024 @03:25PM (#39856252)
It seems like for your theory to be better, it should fit the facts better (not saying it doesn't). Whether it seems agentic or not doesn't seem very relevant to whether it's what happened.
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