For thursday’s sentencing the us government indicated they would be happy with a 40-50 prison sentence, and in the list of reasons they cite there’s this gem:
- Bankman-Fried’s effective altruism and own statements about risk suggest he would be likely to commit another fraud if he determined it had high enough “expected value”. They point to Caroline Ellison’s testimony in which she said that Bankman-Fried had expressed to her that he would “be happy to flip a coin, if it came up tails and the world was destroyed, as long as if it came up heads the world would be like more than twice as good”. They also point to Bankman-Fried’s “own ‘calculations’” described in his sentencing memo, in which he says his life now has negative expected value. “Such a calculus will inevitably lead him to trying again,” they write.
Turns out making it a point of pride that you have the morality of an anime villain does not endear you to prosecutors, who knew.
Bonus: SBF’s lawyers’ list of assertions for asking for a shorter sentence includes this hilarious bit reasoning:
They argue that Bankman-Fried would not reoffend, for reasons including that “he would sooner suffer than bring disrepute to any philanthropic movement.”
ah, it’s always fun when
the quiet part out loud CONFIDENTIAL.docx
leaks. this sub-mediocre rich little jackass really did convince himself all he needed to do was control the narrative and flood Twitter with nonsense and he’d come out of this an unscathed alt-right grifter. what’s fucking amazing is that he still tried a bunch of these tactics (specifically #15 and a lot of the ones throwing shade on the bankruptcy team) even though the prosecution had this document the entire timethe sentencing is in five and a half hours and i can’t wait for SBF to try to get up and just explain one more time
oh damn, I should watch
e: reuters has a stream up
The fucking comments on the live chat, lol.
what skill set. WHAT SKILL SET
probably the same kind muskies see in 'ole felon
@sc_griffith @mii he got rich, therefore he must be good at whatever he was doing. Please pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Ha, 2 hours later, comments are disabled.
lol it’s just a camera on the front of the building
yeah, realized afterwards that it’s probably the feed for press meet when they leave, as iirc US court doesn’t allow video or something
whacky to hear some of the comments dropped offhand by the door dudes tho
live tweet thread from innercitypress https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1773340043744010640
if my real-life friends were cooler, I’d have already arranged a watch party, drinking game, and post-sentencing celebratory cocktails
fuck it, we’re doing cocktails
The SBF
breakfast of sneers
Here’s my cocktail suggestion:
50 Shades (Sam Bankman) Fried:
Ingredients:
Equipment:
Steps:
(Do not actually make this)
ah yes the diabetes potion (bulk of density difference in drinkable things is due to differing sugar content)
I am having an iced coffee with oat milk — a café oat lait, if you will.