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The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Behind the Bastards

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The FTX's Suspicions

FTX is suing the old management of Naru to try and reclaim a billion or so dollars, they argue was funneled illegally into nonsense like this. The lawsuit further says that the projects run by the FTX Foundation were frequently misguided and sometimes dystopian. These included a $300,000 grant to an individual to write a book about how to figure out what humans utility function are, as well as a $400,000 grant for videos on grabby aliens.

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