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If you generated this with an LLM, you might consider labeling it more clearly. Wrote copy-and-pasting of llm outputs seems contrary to the ‘thoughtful and substantive’ north star of hacker news comments. And just in case I’m wrong, apologies - it would be a good bit of irony if I turned out to be the one hallucinating.

I think its pretty clearly from an LLM and disagree its not thoughtful and substantive.

> Venture Investments and Related Parties: The FTX Group’s venture investments were marked by a lack of due diligence, rapid decision-making, and unsupported valuations. Many investments involved entities tied to senior FTX executives, further complicating the financial landscape and recovery efforts .

Seriously asking- how does this differ from any other VC fund?

A VC fund is set up explicitly to operate this way. Investors know what they’re getting into; investors are the customer and are aware of the risks. They know they’re gambling.

FTX was supposedly a safe place to exchange funds, the customers were uninformed as to the risks they were taking. In fact they were encouraged to believe the risks were low. They did not know they were gambling.

It’s really different.

You're right, it doesn't: this isn't human insight, it is GPT spam

I’d be amused if FTX made better investments than the average VC fund.

The primary difference is that FTX was far more reckless than the typical VC.

Nah, the difference is that FTX was investing stolen money. No one would care otherwise.

There's a lot of sketchy finance that nobody cares about...until you lose a lot of other people's money.

GPT spam

this comment sparked more discussion than some others on this thread, including yours

Idk man, discussion was "uhh wtf?"

Sorry about your spam comment getting nuked

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