The man who knew too nothing

The more you hear about the SBF story — hooked around an “altruism” that involves acquiring immense amounts of personal wealth through explicitly shady means, that is a con that comes dressed as a con — the more you realize how easily certain certain elites in our culture can be impressed by manifestly unimpressive people, as long as they have the right connections and shitloads of money:

I ask you, dear reader, in light of this evidence, for a posterior distribution on Bankman-Fried ever having passed a statistics course https://t.co/FyuqMmZCib— Mel Andrews (@bayesianboy) October 7, 2023

Similarly, my BAYESIAN PRIORS lead me to conclude that it is unpossible for any of the greatest MLB players in history to have come from a tiny country like the Dominican Republic, and hence the Baseball Reference pages of Roberto Alomar, Ivan Rodriguez, and Carlos Beltran are all elaborate frauds.

Quite frankly, his recent pivot to “I cannot be held responsible for my massive fraud because I am a complete dumbshit” is probably his best shot at this point.

Slightly less insulting than "he needed to steal all the money to do more altruism" https://t.co/1UT6MXDHgl— Atrios (@Atrios) October 6, 2023