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The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being a Hero

"I don't have a choice not to spend some of the significant amount of money I pay in taxes educating other people's kids," he says. "If I avoid paying taxes in order to like, spend all of my money investing in open AI so that I can like take people's jobs away, like I wanna feel like a hero for doing that because what I'm arguing is that it's best for the people of 500 years from now and there's gonna be more of them than there are today" He adds: "The most exhausting kind of evil is the one that also insists on you validating that it's not actually evil all the time"

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