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Episode: AMERICAN DISSIDENT VOICES 10.9.23: Sam Bankman-Fiend
Description: THE OLD ENGLISH PROVERB “give the devil his due” applies to one great moment of self-insight expressed by Jewish con man extraordinaire Sam Bankman-Fried, recently revealed in Michael Lewis’s book on him, Going Infinite. In 2018, long before the collapse of his crypto-fraud exchange FTX, Bankman-Fried said to his then-girlfriend Caroline Ellison, and I quote:
In a lot of ways I don’t really have a soul. This is a lot more obvious in some contexts than others. But in the end there’s a pretty decent argument that my empathy is fake, my feelings are fake, my facial reactions are fake.
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