[HN Gopher] The beautiful mind of Sam Bankman-Fried
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The beautiful mind of Sam Bankman-Fried
Author : p4bl0
Score : 22 points
Date : 2023-10-31 21:03 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (davidgerard.co.uk)
| andrewfromx wrote:
| great info here https://youtu.be/FtzvOZNyXdw
| stevage wrote:
| God bless David Gerard.
| aeonik wrote:
| I'm not sure I fully understand the article.
|
| Can someone explain the connection with Elon Musk and state
| sponsored distractions?
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| I'm also confused by the "rationalist" talk.
|
| Otherwise interesting set of information on the article that I
| wasn't aware of.
| nyssos wrote:
| > Can someone explain the connection with Elon Musk and state
| sponsored distractions?
|
| I think you misread "stage-managed". They're saying that
| billionaires' public personas are often deliberately
| constructed by their PR teams in order to serve their business
| interests.
|
| > I'm also confused by the "rationalist" talk.
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| Rationalists are a Bay Area/internet subculture.
| aeonik wrote:
| Makes a lot of sense, thank you!
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| > We know from the CFTC settlement that Tether printed tethers
| from nothing and accounted them in the reserves as "loans." We
| also know that Alameda minted 39.55 billion tethers and certainly
| didn't send Tether anything like $39 billion -- which would have
| been more than their entire claimed assets under management.
|
| Wow so SBF literally started the whole scam by printing money. I
| am shocked and amazed that Sequoia missed this. But I am not
| surprised. I am very very certain that they knew this and played
| a big part in this fraud. What a bunch of crooks and thieves
| Sequoia have become.
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