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Thanksgiving Mega-Pod: Bob Iger’s Power Grab, SBF’s Scandal, and Elon Musk’s Omnishambles

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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Is SBF an Effective Altruist?

Sally Kohn: It's possible SBF was an effective altruist who also likely committed fraud by stealing customer accounts, sending them to his hedge fund and then losing them or stealing them personally for personal gain. She says he seemed to indicate that he saw effective altruism as a kind of woke front that he could use in order to limit the number of critical questions from like-minded say Democrats. Kohn: I thought that what he was saying was that he had previously endorsed a set of ethics, ethical norms that are more kind of constraining than pure utilitarianism.

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