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Re: Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

#271

I always wondered whether the American guilty / not guilty system isn't obviously too binary.

What is the alternative here and where do they use it? The audience has voted and you've been declared.. 4% guilty! You will now serve 4% of the statutory 25 year sentence!

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

#273

Again, justice is served for a small, very small, subset of the white collar criminals. Bring the real crooks (e.g. insider traders etc.) in for justice.

Insider traders are the “real crooks”? That’s pretty far down one side of the abstract harm spectrum.

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

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I always wondered whether the American guilty / not guilty system isn't obviously too binary.

Of course it's not. Where there are gradients, there are different charges. Murder I, Murder II, (voluntary/involuntary) Manslaughter, etc. To the extent grey areas exist, they are accounted for in a gradient of crimes, each of which has a binary degree of guilt.

And the gradient of sentencing for the convictions -- defrauding people of $1 gets you less jail time that defrauding people out of $100k, which gets you less jail time than defrauding people out of $100M.

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

#280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking online I see reports that FTX owes its creditors $3B. If Anthropic has 6.5x then the initial $500 million is now worth $3.25B. Is it actually possible that all creditors will get their money back? Pretty crazy if so.

In a slightly different universe, the literally criminal risk might have worked a little longer. Then again, GenAI perhaps undermines the notion of NFTs and "digital art/assets as valuable fungible commodities." It was really wierd seeing Stable Diffusion take off as NFTs were collapsing... so maybe there is no universe where FTX fakes it until they make it.

Keep in mind that "NFTs representing digital art" are a subset of what NFTs are. GenAI might have impacted art tokens, but wouldn't affect NFTs as a whole.
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