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Scott Alexander on Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX and Effective Altruism

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I made this a top level post because I think people here might want to discuss it but you can remove it if it doesn't meet your standards.

Edit: removed my opinion of Scott from the body

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"but I was friendly with another FTX/Alameda higher-up around 2018, before they moved abroad. At the time they seemed like a remarkably kind, decent, and thoughtful person, and I liked them a lot."

Did Scott fuck Caroline Ellison? She was high up in the organisation, poly, and has a tumblr full of rat adjacent stuff.

https://twitter.com/AutismCapital/status/1591601671943393280

Reading it leaves me legitimately wondering if she embezzled $10 billion to get Sam to like her more than those Asian girls he was living with.

IIRC Scott has written about having very little interest in sex as reason for letting his trans gf (male) cuckold him. So I doubt it

I thoroughly regret clicking on that tweet and actually reading all the replies.

Well, then you're gonna regret reading the paragraph below even more, courtesy of some deranged mind on 4chan:


This. Normies can't understand the thrill of pinning the weasel. Night spent chasing an over amphetamined Caroline around the bean bag forts. Her squealing and gibbering, pouring sweat and on the verge of seizing. Your friends build up an intoxicating, delerious state with Talmudic chantings at the sidelines, hitting the Caroline-toy with brooms if she tries to escape. Sam would be giggling and laughing as the waves of methamphetamine pleasure seem to harmonize with the droning herbrew verses. He runs through the bean bag maze fat and portly, with his viagra powered penis a divining rod for the weasel. Sweat gushing down his face around his unfocused eyes he laughs and chortles until he gasps "Found you!". The Mathsweasel screeches defensively but Wankman Bankman is upon her in seconds. His penis thrusting blindly into her flank, leg, stomach and ribs unconcerened about anything but the motion. Eventually serendipity finds her mouth and the Cocktube Rodent is placated, sucking contently on Bankman's dehydrated dick.


Someone on Drama mentioned that this was a GVLDEN RETRIEVER tier shitpost, and I'd be inclined to agree...

Stop trying to turn this place into rdrama. It's not rdrama.

I don't know if this is report-worthy, but I'm gonna strongly request that people not repost (or write original) real-person porn fanfic here, even if intended as parody.

Please provide justifications for the request that are at least as strong as the impetus of the request itself.

  1. Trivially, places that allow RPF tend to get unpleasant pretty fast, in ways far broader than the RPF itself. That might be a correlation sorta thing, but it's still the sorta correlation that winks-and-points.

  2. It is, almost by definition, not merely spam or meaningless spam, but high-word-count meaningless spam. Eg, the above is a 160 words of self-described shitpost, and even by rat-sphere standards low-information-density.

  3. Saying false (or knowingly made-up) things is bad epistemology in this sort of context. You and I might know that Sam Hyde hasn't committed the most recent mass shooting, or that this was a joke; but there is no level of drama parody that someone won't use in a We Got 'Em sense.

  4. I didn't need that mental image. Which is funny on its own, fair. But a broader community standard of seeing who can wreck the greatest psychic damage in paragraph form isn't a great way to encourage understanding and debate. I'm not gonna say that the weird furry side automatically wins, since I know what makes rDrama cheer, but it's the sort of arms race that leads to civilian casualties.