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Revisiting Sam Bankman-Fried

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I ran into a recent article that points to the same questions I had about Sam Bankman-Fried when I posted on the scandal a year ago : [T]he received narrative goes on to say that FTX was run by a dozen or so polyamorous hippie-style geniuses who suffered from ADHD, lived communally in a luxury penthouse in the Bahamas, and had their own doctor-therapist who prescribed amphetamines for their ADHD. The only female in the group I'm aware of was Caroline Ellison, so according to that doctor, there wasn't really that much action. Nevertheless, it was the synergy between Beanbag Boy Bankman-Fried and Queen Caroline that drove the whole enterprise, or something like that. But they let Caroline lose $10 billion in unsupervised trading, and John Ray III says he's nver seen anything like it. Never underestimate what a beautiful woman can do. At the time, I was scratching my head: I kept doing web searches on ADHD and came up with discussions like this : In order for peopl...