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147 – Analyzing Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX

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What if Bankman Fried Was an Asshole Megalomaniac?

William McCaskill, known as the founder of long termism and effective altruism, addresses this by saying that it's a valid concern but he doesn't take it too seriously. You know who else is on the record effective altruist long termist? Elon Musk. But if Elon Musk can say, I don't care about my people in my life and my employees, I care about going to Mars because I think climate change is real. And if the earth gets too hot, I want humanity to continue. Or who cares if my workers at the plant in Northern California all get COVID? We need to have an electric grid and electric cars because of climate change. So the knock

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