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Not really, SBF was caught in a lot of hype himself -- he was trying to get included on the Twitter deal as well, and the FTX balance sheet showed $43 million of TWTR stock near the acquisition, though Musk claims the offer was rejected.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-calls-report-s...

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Read the text messages (different lawsuit) between musk and prominent (imho) Oxford philosopher William McAskill. Musk is asked repeatedly to meet and take money from this brillian guy called SBF. It’s weird bc I read wills book and really looked up to him, but clearly SBF can be very convincing. Elon seemed to not want to do it but the text messages suggest he did eventually take a call.

So Elon must not have liked how that went since he was publicly encouraging others to roll over.

My speculation of course.

If this episode isn't a giant warning sign for MacAskill and all of the rest of these characters, what would be? Maybe he's not as dumb as he always acts, but SBF seems more like a pawn of the altruism cabal than the other way around.

All three of those people are dumb assholes. Not sure how that couldn't be clearer given all of their behavior. Part of life is being able to suss out people like these characters and never once did I think any of them had anything of value to contribute.

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