Jamie Loftus

Instead, I should make instead the most ethical thing that I should do is make as much money as I personally can and then put that money into things that I believe will save the world, like research to stop AIs from killing everyone and getting to Mars and shit.

It's a way for billionaires and the other mega rich to justify continuing to do exactly what they want and feel like they're saving the world.

Made a lot of Beanie Babies?

That's well, you know, that's I'm fine with that compared to these guys.

Because they're all doing the Elon Musk thing where they're pretending.

Anyway, Sam Bankman Freed is one of these guys.

We're going to get into that.

But we did this episode on It Could Happen Here.

where he was kind of a tangential character in this very unsettling and insidious movement that is behind guys like Elon Musk who are claiming to be saving the world while just fucking over people.

And then like four days after it came out, his entire life unraveled and his fortune disappeared overnight because he was a giant con artist.

What a treat.

It's very funny.

So that's why we're talking about him right now.

Look, I shouldn't call anyone a schlub, but he looks like a schlub.

Yeah.

Anyway, so I yeah, Sam Bankman Freed was born in 1992 on the campus of Stanford University, continuing a long and proud tradition of absolutely nothing good ever coming from that hellhole.

His parents are both extremely prominent Stanford professors.

His mother, Barbara, is a lawyer who clerked for the Second Circuit Court and graduated from Harvard.

She founded Mind the Gap, a somewhat shady and mysterious democratic fundraising group.

I think it's shady in that people don't exactly know where all the money comes from or, like, what their goals are.