<story><title>Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ZephyrBlu</author><text>Author: &amp;quot;so the ethics stuff - mostly a front?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;SBF: &amp;quot;yeah&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely gobsmacked.&lt;p&gt;I saw these screenshots on Twitter and I thought they were fake until I read the article. The rest of the messages from him are pretty terrible as well.&lt;p&gt;I thought he just fucked up, but no. He was wilfully unethical and maintains he did nothing wrong: &amp;quot;Sometimes life creeps up on you&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And the thing he regrets most is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...&lt;p&gt;What a cruel fucking joke for all the people who invested with&amp;#x2F;in FTX.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovehashbrowns</author><text>The ethics discussion along with the FTX&amp;#x2F;Alameda discussion is such a fascinating juxtaposition for me. It makes the article so much more interesting in my view.&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, you’ve got this ethics discussion, which in context happened previously, about the ethics of running an immoral business to do good things. Then an ethical discussion about how that answer was BS and all that really matters is perception, and how perception doesn’t mirror reality.&lt;p&gt;And here I’m trying to reflect on these topics. How do I feel about these things, how would I answer?&lt;p&gt;Then the next part begins soon after with “messy accounting.”&lt;p&gt;I view it the way I’d view Michelangelo’s David if it were displayed at a local county fair.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ZephyrBlu</author><text>Author: &amp;quot;so the ethics stuff - mostly a front?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;SBF: &amp;quot;yeah&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely gobsmacked.&lt;p&gt;I saw these screenshots on Twitter and I thought they were fake until I read the article. The rest of the messages from him are pretty terrible as well.&lt;p&gt;I thought he just fucked up, but no. He was wilfully unethical and maintains he did nothing wrong: &amp;quot;Sometimes life creeps up on you&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And the thing he regrets most is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...&lt;p&gt;What a cruel fucking joke for all the people who invested with&amp;#x2F;in FTX.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c7DJTLrn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m wondering if there is some kind of mass insanity occurring in the world right now with this and the behaviour of numerous influential figures.</text></comment>