The difficult part is trying to figure out how much of Amodei's strange affect is an act (intentional) and how much of it is real (unintentional).

With Holmes, some of it was intentionally fake and manipulative (especially the voice), half of it was believing her own BS. With SBF it was mostly the latter, I think.

Amodei is a smart guy, but there are aspects of his behavior that almost seem like he's doing an over-the-top exaggeration of non-neurotypical mannerisms as a kind of act.