“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.”
Tech executives are such feral animals. What the fuck.
Remembering a study done that most CEOs are actual sociopaths.
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.
This dude definitely is
Sometimes I wonder if these guys are truly sociopaths or if they just convince themselves they are because they like the idea.
I do think many of them were born with the capacity for empathy but learn to suppress it because that’s what it takes to get ahead in that world.
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
“The rich are different from us.”
“Yes, they have more money.”
“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?”
“I love you, alive girl” these people are freaks.
I wish he had simply called himself a
effectivezero empathy altruist. It would have saved a lot of other people’s money and a lot of their grief.Honestly, this is the least surprising bit of information we’ve heard about this guy
I’d call him a nerd, but then I would be associated with him.
When your brain stops developing in eight grade
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!
Not a psychiatrist, but he sounds like he was depressed.
Good on him for the honesty, honestly.
To be fair, neither do I. You and me, Sam. Empty husks desperately trying to compensate the void with sustances.
