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#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good

80,000 Hours Podcast

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You Know, It's a Weird Property of the World, Right?

jeff ba: I think it's not actually nintention with economics properly uner understood. The number of people who are really willing to dive in and take a risk is sufficiently small that your odds, if you try, are just not that low. So we had to be, got on like, a number of different realms. It was like an important part of it, like thos just like,. so, so, so easy for us to fail to accomplish what we did if we just decided our goal was a lot lower.

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