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Jamie Loftus

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4079 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

I don't know, but we have to read another one.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Quote, here SPF realized was the rub when he applied this.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

principle to his own life, he came up short.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

There was little chance he'd get himself fired from Jane Street.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Thus, the decision to stick with Jane was a risk-averse preference.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

It was the logical equivalent of being offered a choice between $50 and 50% of $100 and saying, give me President Grant.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

SBF was risk-neutral on behalf of Jane Street, but not, he realized, for his own life.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

To be fully rational about maximizing his income on behalf of the poor, he should apply his trading principles across the board.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

He had to find a risk-neutral career path.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Which, if we strip away the traitor jargon, actually means he needed to take on a lot more risk.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Oh, Jamie, you need to hear this.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Which, if we strip away the traitor jargon, actually means he felt he needed to take on a lot more risk in the hopes of becoming part of the global elite.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

The math couldn't be clearer.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Very high risk multiplied by dynastic wealth.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Trump's low risk multiplied by mere rich guy wealth.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

To do the most good for the world, SBF needed to find a path on which he'd be a coin toss away from going totally bust.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

The path is risk neutral, but that means taking a lot of risk because the most risk is the only way to become the wealthiest person in the world.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

And only by becoming the wealthiest person in the world can you avoid risk.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

You get it, Jamie?

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

That's clearly the most logical, ethical way to live.