Sam Bankman-Fried made Caroline Ellison a pros and cons list for a sexual relationship with him. One con was 'In a lot of ways I don't really have a soul.'
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Sam Bankman-Fried's list had more cons than pros, including a lack of empathy.

"There's a pretty decent argument that my empathy is fake, my feelings are fake, my facial reactions are fake. I don't feel happiness. What's the point in dating someone who you physically can't make happy?" the FTX cofounder added.

In a shorter list entitled "ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR," Bankman-Fried said the pair had shared interests, he enjoyed talking with her, and listed "I really like fucking you" twice.

"Sam wanted to do whatever at any given moment offered the highest expected value, and his estimate of her expected value seemed to peak right before they had sex and plummet immediately after."

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Most of them in general but with tech you've got the deus ex machina complex where they're all representing some utopian future. There are so many layers to the narcissism.

        • AlicePraxis
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          5 months ago

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      • saturnus@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I don’t think that’s true even though I had heard similar: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/to-manage-is-human/202305/the-truth-about-corporate-psychopaths

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    "hey girl, I'm all fucked up, I'm crazy, like the joker, I'm wild, twisted. But if i'm the joker, would you be my Harley Quinn?"

    wtf-am-i-reading

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I wish he had simply called himself a effective zero empathy altruist. It would have saved a lot of other people's money and a lot of their grief.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, this is the least surprising bit of information we've heard about this guy

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Step right up, step right up! Gentlefolk, what I have for you here is a twisted parody of humanity! A creature raised in the most inhospitable conditions known to man, sculpted by an unnatural upbringing into a fiend in human skin! I do not exaggerate in the slightest, for behind this curtain lurks none other than... the child of two Ivy League ethics professors! Yes! Prepare yourselves for the vision of a creature more fit for the inky void between the stars than this soft, green Earth - but, if you be faint of heart, this is your last chance to hie the hence and enjoy your limited time under our fair sun unburdened by the knowledge of this loathsome homunculus!