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"There's a pretty decent argument that my empathy is fake, my feelings are fake, my facial reactions are fake. I don't feel happiness. What's the point in dating someone who you physically can't make happy?" the FTX cofounder added.

In a shorter list entitled "ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR," Bankman-Fried said the pair had shared interests, he enjoyed talking with her, and listed "I really like fucking you" twice.

"Sam wanted to do whatever at any given moment offered the highest expected value, and his estimate of her expected value seemed to peak right before they had sex and plummet immediately after."

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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Tech executives are such feral animals. What the fuck.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Remembering a study done that most CEOs are actual sociopaths.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Most of them in general but with tech you've got the deus ex machina complex where they're all representing some utopian future. There are so many layers to the narcissism.

[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago
[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes I wonder if these guys are truly sociopaths or if they just convince themselves they are because they like the idea.

I do think many of them were born with the capacity for empathy but learn to suppress it because that's what it takes to get ahead in that world.

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

"The rich are different from us."

"Yes, they have more money."

[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

"hey girl, I'm all fucked up, I'm crazy, like the joker, I'm wild, twisted. But if i'm the joker, would you be my Harley Quinn?"

wtf-am-i-reading

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

"I love you, alive girl" these people are freaks.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

I wish he had simply called himself a ~~effective~~ zero empathy altruist. It would have saved a lot of other people's money and a lot of their grief.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Honestly, this is the least surprising bit of information we've heard about this guy

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

I'd call him a nerd, but then I would be associated with him.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

When your brain stops developing in eight grade

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Step right up, step right up! Gentlefolk, what I have for you here is a twisted parody of humanity! A creature raised in the most inhospitable conditions known to man, sculpted by an unnatural upbringing into a fiend in human skin! I do not exaggerate in the slightest, for behind this curtain lurks none other than... the child of two Ivy League ethics professors! Yes! Prepare yourselves for the vision of a creature more fit for the inky void between the stars than this soft, green Earth - but, if you be faint of heart, this is your last chance to hie the hence and enjoy your limited time under our fair sun unburdened by the knowledge of this loathsome homunculus!

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Not a psychiatrist, but he sounds like he was depressed.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Good on him for the honesty, honestly.

[-] POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, neither do I. You and me, Sam. Empty husks desperately trying to compensate the void with sustances.

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