Given the impression that Bankman-Fried’s distracted nods were a yes to her invite and requests for a sponsorship, Wintour “warmly,” writes Lewis, ended the conversation. But the FTX cofounder was unconvinced. “I would have to think hard if this is a thing I want to go to,” he said shortly after the call was over.
Bankman-Fried’s team, though, planned as if he were going to the fashion event of the year, sounding out Louis Vuitton to see whether it was possible to design a couture version of Bankman-Fried’s T-shirt-and-cargo-pants uniform and paying Tom Ford to design an outfit replete with $65,000 cufflinks.
Inevitably, however, Bankman-Fried backed out of the gala, and as opposed to the polite notes of understanding from the many other celebrities he’s bailed on, Wintour’s team was outraged. “They called and shouted and said Sam will never set foot in fashion again!” the former head of public relations at FTX told Lewis.
You know, I'm really starting to think the boy...just ain't that bright.
Forget statistics that's a literature failure. Shakespeare was special but I've almost never seen him cited as the greatest writer ever. Even the greatest of the English language, or just England, or even just English playwrights (though when you narrow it that much he is pretty consistently top ten).
Saying Shakespeare was the greatest writer of all time is the sort of thing you would hear from a person who watches too much TV. Where he would always be name-dropped as such on an episode needed to a character about writing or whatever.
I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.
Forget statistics that's a literature failure. Shakespeare was special but I've almost never seen him cited as the greatest writer ever. Even the greatest of the English language, or just England, or even just English playwrights (though when you narrow it that much he is pretty consistently top ten).
He's cited as the greatest playwright and greatest English language writer of all time constantly, by hordes of people, qualified and not.
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Nothing wrong with thinking Shakespeare is/n't the GOAT. Opinions and all that, plus he was pretty damn talented. Except SBF doesn't do books, so he's just doing a hot take with science sounding words that mean he doesn't actually have to back it up.
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
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Morbid curiosity compels me to ask what someone like SBF thinks "greatest writer" actually means
The answer will not be very interesting considering he's said in interviews that books are dumb and he doesn't bother reading anything too long for a blog post.
Lewis has all the receipts. He discovers Bankman-Fried’s inability to lead a regular life – one involving sleep and clean clothes – and his imposition of the same kind of existence upon his employees. (One employee went 30 days without leaving FTX’s Hong Kong office.) He learns how, after starting a crypto trading firm called Alameda Research, Bankman-Fried misplaced $4m worth of a token called Ripple, only to find it again. He knows precisely what sort of romantic squabbles Bankman-Fried had with his girlfriend, whom he’d installed as CEO of Alameda when she was still in her mid-20s; in fact, Lewis even saw the notes that Bankman-Fried wrote her, taxonomising their relationship.
Surely, this is a good person-A fool
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It is amazing how a person can still write a sympathetic book about him after actually knowing him
I think he started out writing a book about him before there was any scandal as a sort of hey here's a super-genius kind of thing, and he's been unable to pivot into realising the guy was a con artist. It sounds like Lewis has been duped and can't come to terms with that, hence the "is fraud really a crime?" bullshit.
It is amazing how a person can still write a sympathetic book about him after actually knowing him
I think he started out writing a book about him before there was any scandal as a sort of hey here's a super-genius kind of thing, and he's been unable to pivot into realising the guy was a con artist. It sounds like Lewis has been duped and can't come to terms with that, hence the "is fraud really a crime?" bullshit.
I'm NGL, any time I hear someone talk about bayesian bullshit, I don't even finish the sentence. I immediately shut down the computer and go outside to touch grass
It is amazing how a person can still write a sympathetic book about him after actually knowing him
I think he started out writing a book about him before there was any scandal as a sort of hey here's a super-genius kind of thing, and he's been unable to pivot into realising the guy was a con artist. It sounds like Lewis has been duped and can't come to terms with that, hence the "is fraud really a crime?" bullshit.
I mean coffezilla pointed it out, lewis believes friedman more than friedman believes friedman that's just pathetic simping.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I'm NGL, any time I hear someone talk about bayesian bullshit, I don't even finish the sentence. I immediately shut down the computer and go outside to touch grass
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You can tell a judge is pissed when he's sustaining objections you haven't made yet.
Reminds me of my time at the DA's office.
There was a pro-se dude in traffic court arguing his case. It's a very common strategy to let a pro-se defendant ramble on because it almost invariably hurts their case and helps you. At one point the judge looked the ADA dead in the eye and said "....objection counselor?"
"Y-yes your honor?"
"Sustained. Sit down [Mr. Pro se]"
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I'm NGL, any time I hear someone talk about bayesian bullshit, I don't even finish the sentence. I immediately shut down the computer and go outside to touch grass
How so?
Like monkier said, it's a shibboleth for particularly dumb subsets of SV and online "rationalists" types who are so far up their own ass that holding a normal conversation with them is next to impossible.
I thought it was still up in the air if there was one actual Shakespeare? Am I out of the history loop.
We’ll never know for absolute certain that the person we call Shakespeare actually wrote all the plays attributed to them. But we don’t know this for certain in the same way we likely won’t ever know for certain if Covid is the result of a lab deliberately leaking a deadly virus for nefarious reasons. Which is to say, it’s considered most likely that Shakespeare actually did write his plays, and that Covid did not enter the world through a lab leak, but anyone looking for absolutely unassailable black and white proof is going to be disappointed.
Civics is not a consumer product that you can ignore because you don’t like the options presented.
I thought it was still up in the air if there was one actual Shakespeare? Am I out of the history loop.
We’ll never know for absolute certain that the person we call Shakespeare actually wrote all the plays attributed to them. But we don’t know this for certain in the same way we likely won’t ever know for certain if Covid is the result of a lab deliberately leaking a deadly virus for nefarious reasons. Which is to say, it’s considered most likely that Shakespeare actually did write his plays, and that Covid did not enter the world through a lab leak, but anyone looking for absolutely unassailable black and white proof is going to be disappointed.
And if you get down to the details, almost no historical figure that wasn't photographed actually has this proof. It's very weird to write, "This person I'm talking about really existed, really did these things, was only one person, and fits the description provided." We know Jesus existed but can't be sure it was one man and not a movement. We can't be sure if Ea Nasir was one man or a shop employing multiple smiths. We view history through these scraps and information is incredibly easy to destroy.
We can't conclusively disprove the theory that Socrates was a fiction created by Plato and all the works we credit to Socrates are indeed Plato's... and we likewise can't conclusively disprove that Plato was just a scribe to an elderly Socrates signing his own name and all the works we credit to Plato are indeed from Socrates.
Both claims are without positive evidence, but what we believe to be true about them is reconstructed from various conflicting accounts, so if you want conclusive proof of either the evidence is going to come up short.
I thought it was still up in the air if there was one actual Shakespeare? Am I out of the history loop.
We’ll never know for absolute certain that the person we call Shakespeare actually wrote all the plays attributed to them. But we don’t know this for certain in the same way we likely won’t ever know for certain if Covid is the result of a lab deliberately leaking a deadly virus for nefarious reasons. Which is to say, it’s considered most likely that Shakespeare actually did write his plays, and that Covid did not enter the world through a lab leak, but anyone looking for absolutely unassailable black and white proof is going to be disappointed.
Not to mention most of the alternative hypotheses for who wrote it were almost purely class centric in origin, especially the claim that the Earl of Oxford really did it. None of the intelligencia of England in the 17th-19th centuries wanted to admit that some of the greatest drama and poetry ever written were done by a lower class guy and day player, with only a rural grammar school education and a love of Tyndal's biblical translations and Cranmer's book of common prayer.
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Theory that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare's stuff, that it was pen name for someone(s) else, has gotten a bit hotter recently. With the Shakespeare-was-Shakespeare side starting to tell the Shakespeare-wasn't-Shakespeare people to fuck all the way off. I can understand, since most of the alternate theories seem to start with the idea that Shakespeare didn't write things, and then attempt to sort out who actually did, as opposed to having something concrete indicating that Marlowe or someone did the writing and going from there.
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
There is no hard evidence for any of the "Shakespeare was really someone else" theories and they can be comfortably dismissed until such time as some appears.
So, let's see how many of our programmers on here wind up crying or cringing over FTX's code fraud.
Like, the fraud was literally written into the code. This does not adhere to Stringer Bell Principles of Programming ("is you committing to git a criminal fucking conspiracy?")
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Perry Mason calls a pod of Orcas to the stand!
Also, he blew off The Devil Who Wears Prada:
You know, I'm really starting to think the boy...just ain't that bright.
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He's a cretin.
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He's cited as the greatest playwright and greatest English language writer of all time constantly, by hordes of people, qualified and not.
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The answer will not be very interesting considering he's said in interviews that books are dumb and he doesn't bother reading anything too long for a blog post.
I think he started out writing a book about him before there was any scandal as a sort of hey here's a super-genius kind of thing, and he's been unable to pivot into realising the guy was a con artist. It sounds like Lewis has been duped and can't come to terms with that, hence the "is fraud really a crime?" bullshit.
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He didn't create a Ponzi Scheme!
Right, he's charged with embezzlement.
I'm NGL, any time I hear someone talk about bayesian bullshit, I don't even finish the sentence. I immediately shut down the computer and go outside to touch grass
It is a pretty good shibboleth
I mean coffezilla pointed it out, lewis believes friedman more than friedman believes friedman that's just pathetic simping.
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How so?
Conditional probability is useful, but if you run across someone mentioning it in the real world they are probably just trying to sound smart.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
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Reminds me of my time at the DA's office.
There was a pro-se dude in traffic court arguing his case. It's a very common strategy to let a pro-se defendant ramble on because it almost invariably hurts their case and helps you. At one point the judge looked the ADA dead in the eye and said "....objection counselor?"
"Y-yes your honor?"
"Sustained. Sit down [Mr. Pro se]"
Like monkier said, it's a shibboleth for particularly dumb subsets of SV and online "rationalists" types who are so far up their own ass that holding a normal conversation with them is next to impossible.
We’ll never know for absolute certain that the person we call Shakespeare actually wrote all the plays attributed to them. But we don’t know this for certain in the same way we likely won’t ever know for certain if Covid is the result of a lab deliberately leaking a deadly virus for nefarious reasons. Which is to say, it’s considered most likely that Shakespeare actually did write his plays, and that Covid did not enter the world through a lab leak, but anyone looking for absolutely unassailable black and white proof is going to be disappointed.
And if you get down to the details, almost no historical figure that wasn't photographed actually has this proof. It's very weird to write, "This person I'm talking about really existed, really did these things, was only one person, and fits the description provided." We know Jesus existed but can't be sure it was one man and not a movement. We can't be sure if Ea Nasir was one man or a shop employing multiple smiths. We view history through these scraps and information is incredibly easy to destroy.
We can't conclusively disprove the theory that Socrates was a fiction created by Plato and all the works we credit to Socrates are indeed Plato's... and we likewise can't conclusively disprove that Plato was just a scribe to an elderly Socrates signing his own name and all the works we credit to Plato are indeed from Socrates.
Both claims are without positive evidence, but what we believe to be true about them is reconstructed from various conflicting accounts, so if you want conclusive proof of either the evidence is going to come up short.
Somewhere SBF has written blog posts about why it’s so weird that India doesn’t produce every gold medal Olympian
Across all of history.
Not to mention most of the alternative hypotheses for who wrote it were almost purely class centric in origin, especially the claim that the Earl of Oxford really did it. None of the intelligencia of England in the 17th-19th centuries wanted to admit that some of the greatest drama and poetry ever written were done by a lower class guy and day player, with only a rural grammar school education and a love of Tyndal's biblical translations and Cranmer's book of common prayer.
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Like, the fraud was literally written into the code. This does not adhere to Stringer Bell Principles of Programming ("is you committing to git a criminal fucking conspiracy?")
More here.
Edit: This truly brings new meaning to "git blame".