This article has some really great stuff in it but I wish the author would cut the flowery bullshit and most importantly stop trying to make the piece about themselves. I do not care about how much YOU cringed, about the "holy fucking shit" you wrote on YOUR notes, etc. So many journalists nowadays think THEY are the story. Stick to the real story, keep yourself out of it.
“I found myself reflecting on how smart the average person is. Maybe they don’t know calculus. Maybe they’ll never read Ulysses. Maybe they can’t code. But they definitely know how to identify bullshit when they see it.”<p>How could anyone believe this? “Average” people fall for bullshit all the time.
Molly White has been at the court and livestreaming her notes about the trial each evening. Her commentary has been really fun to watch: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ZR0rgWB_8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ZR0rgWB_8</a>
This is the worst case for a bullshitter - on trial, in a criminal court, under oath, being cross-examined, in front of a jury, with a competent prosecutor who has plenty of evidence.
What is amazing is that nobody infiltrated their structure and ran off with the money. There are sophisticated criminal organisations out there that go to much, much more effort to obtain funding. Just to take Hezbollah since it's all over the news recently: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_Hezbollah#Latin_America" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_Hezbollah#Latin_Ame...</a>
"don't recall"<p>I'm guessing this is largely just an ass-covering strategy to avoid giving the opposing side an upper hand. If you say "yes" to anything you might give them verbal grounds to convict you of more than they can directly find and show external evidence for.
MIT has had a bunch of con artists and scammers walk through it's doors. It's amazing how often it happens. A whole lotta con artists and grifters. Why?
> Behind all the finance sheets and code bases, the fall of FTX was in a way incredibly childish: a nerd posse running away with a bunch of other people’s money in the stupidest and simplest way possible.<p>And yet our bimodal justice system spends huge amount of resources giving this 31yo fraudster every possible chance to escape the consequences, simply because he is a member of the elite.