The beautiful mind of Sam Bankman-Fried
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They want you to think they’re the next Steve Jobs. Somehow, they keep turning out to be Elizabeth Holmes.
  • blakestaceyMAEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    I doubted whether it would be a good use of time to read Michael Lewis’s new book Going Infinite about Sam Bankman-Fried (hereafter SBF or Sam). What would I learn that I did not already know? Was Michael Lewis so far in the tank of SBF that the book was filled with nonsense and not to be trusted?

    I set up a prediction market,

    10/10 perfect LessWrong, no notes

    • carlitoscohonesEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      The resulting book review is 28,776 words. It’s 71 pages long in 12 point Calibri with normal spacing.

      • SoyweiserEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        lol, guess I made a good choice to go ‘nah, not gonna read that’ and closing the tab. That is like 3 SSCs.

          • geriksonEnglish
            6·
            2 years ago

            It seems that SBF is a counterexample to the ideal that an intelligent person can master every domain. Maybe that’s why they are so mad.