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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
Like, I have no evidence that he did, and I haven't seen it.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
Oh, okay, one of those.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
So when I say stuff like he felt like that, or when I say stuff like he felt unfulfilled at Jane Street, that doesn't mean he actually did, because we are at present reliant on a lot of reporting from back when this kid was the toast of Wall Street.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
Now, after his life fell apart and his company crashed and it became clear that he was a financial criminal, it also came out that the guy who wrote the big short has been following him for six months.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
So...
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
I suspect at some point that's going to be fun.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
We're all going to be in for a real treat when that book hits.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
And also, if you're an investor, shouldn't
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
Like it's somebody involved in one of these companies probably should have been able to find out like, oh, hey, the big short guys hanging out with him.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
That probably means this is a giant financial crime.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
That guy's not going to just hang out with a dude who's good at legally making money to write about how good he is at making money legally.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
That's not Michael Lewis's beat.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
Yeah.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
Michael Lewis, aren't you the guy who only writes about financial crimes on like a gigantic scale?
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
Yeah, she just really liked this guy's attitude towards altruism.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
So anyway, yeah, anyway, here's how that, again, very dick writing PR flack motherfucker wrote about what happens next.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
Quote, he was, he realized, too secure.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
SPF's mind had been trained almost from birth to calculate.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
As a schoolboy, the hedonic calculus of utilitarianism had him trying to maximize the utility function measured in utils, of course, for abortion.
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CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update
During his teenage game... I know, I know.