For me, having listened to the guy talk is even stronger evidence since I think I’d notice it if he was lying, but that’s obviously not verifiable.
Going to quote from Astrid Wilde here (original source linked in post):
i felt this way about someone once too. in 2015 that person kidnapped me, trafficked me, and blackmailed me out of my life savings at the time of ~$45,000. i spent the next 3 years homeless.
sociopathic charisma is something i never would have believed in if i hadn’t experienced it first hand. but there really are people out there who spend their entire lives honing their social intelligence to gain wealth, power, and status.
most of them just don’t have enough smart but naive people around them to fake competency and reputation launder at scale. EA was the perfect political philosophy and community for this to scale....
I would really very strongly recommend not updating on an intuitive feeling of “I can trust this guy,” considering that in the counterfactual case (where you could not in fact, trust the guy), you would be equally likely to have that exact feeling!
I would really very strongly recommend not updating on an intuitive feeling of “I can trust this guy,” considering that in the counterfactual case (where you could not in fact, trust the guy), you would be equally likely to have that exact feeling!
Fictional support:
Romana: You mean you didn’t believe his story?
The Doctor: No.
Romana: But he had such an honest face.
The Doctor: Romana, you can’t be a successful crook with a dishonest face, can you?
Going to quote from Astrid Wilde here (original source linked in post):
I would really very strongly recommend not updating on an intuitive feeling of “I can trust this guy,” considering that in the counterfactual case (where you could not in fact, trust the guy), you would be equally likely to have that exact feeling!
As for SBF being vegan as evidence, see my reply to you on the EA forum.
Fictional support:
Doctor Who