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.”
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
live tweet thread from innercitypress https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1773340043744010640
whacky to hear some of the comments dropped offhand by the door dudes tho