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FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

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Re: FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

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If saying she’s a Harry Potter fan is a “micro-aggresssion” what do you call her stealing $95 million from public school teachers in Ontario? What a ridiculous thing to be offended by.

Based on sales figures, many millions of people like Harry Potter and statistically almost none of them have stolen pension funds. You’re getting heat because it’s not relevant and this isn’t a puff piece on the lives of the rich.

Re: FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

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For strange reasons, the archive link to that very interesting story was flagged yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554271

Because it's essentially every variety of HN dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33549059

and is now on the front page twice. Flaggers had it right as is usually the case.

Re: FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

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For anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the atmosphere, it's good to know that in the series B round, they raised $420.69m from 69 investors. https://blockworks.co/news/sam-bankman-frieds-ftx-raises-pre... I don't know what those numbers mean, but those investors probably thought it was the funniest thing on earth, and they created history.

Can anyone explain what is special about this number?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_(sex_position)

Re: FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

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post #118

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Hearing drugs for the first time in this shitshow. Care to elaborate a bit on this?

https://twitter.com/carolinecapital/status/13790363463003054... https://twitter.com/0x_charlemagne/status/159142224677375180...

Thanks. That explains a lot.

Re: FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

#145

For anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the atmosphere, it's good to know that in the series B round, they raised $420.69m from 69 investors. https://blockworks.co/news/sam-bankman-frieds-ftx-raises-pre... I don't know what those numbers mean, but those investors probably thought it was the funniest thing on earth, and they created history.

Can anyone explain what is special about this number?

420 is likely a symbol for cannabis. 69 is a paired sexual position.

Re: FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

#146

For anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the atmosphere, it's good to know that in the series B round, they raised $420.69m from 69 investors. https://blockworks.co/news/sam-bankman-frieds-ftx-raises-pre... I don't know what those numbers mean, but those investors probably thought it was the funniest thing on earth, and they created history.

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Re: FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

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Wow, I'm really surprised. Of all the people who could make anti-intellectual statements, I really thought SBF was one of the last. I get that many books these days are long winded (looking at you Nassim Taleb) ways to make a point, but someone absolutely needs to document all the thinking somewhere. Whether you read the whole book in detail is also optional. But to generalize this much about all books is astonishing…

Being an effective altruist doesn't make someone an intellectual. They teach the boy-in-pond thought experiment the first week of any college elective ethics class. They hand out The Life You Could Save to all harvard undergrads in the first week. Locking yourself into a myopic utilitarianism that avoids all structural critiques seems roughly the opposite of an open intellectual perspective.

I wasn't really thinking about EA, more that the type of person who is brought up by college professors and gets through some quite tight eye-of-the-needle admissions processes tends to be the kind of person who venerates knowledge in its most venerable form.

Re: FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

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post #104

Another Theranos. How many until SV investors lose credibility?

Come on now, Elizabeth Holmes could only dream of having $420m handed to her, no questions asked. She came up in more hardscrabble times where the children of the rich had to first con former government and military officials to join their board. That takes work!
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