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Molly White

I finally got hold of the government exhibit that SBF's lawyers worried prosecutors were using just to "show that he’s some sort of crazy person"

mollywhite.net/storage/sbf-tri

I find it really fascinating to stroll through uncanny vallies. Most people do not. Most people fucking hate it. I often forget this fact, and fail to collapse wavefunctions that span the valley for way too long: because I actually don’t mind the tension of the valley, even though I know, intellectually, that almost everyone is their worst self in them. — Here’s an approximate list of what matters: 1) Being aligned and always doing whatever you think is best for the company 2) Being aligned and always doing whatever you think is best for the company 3) Being aligned and always doing whatever you think is best for the company 4) Being aligned and always doing whatever you think is best for the company 5) Being aligned and always doing whatever you think is best for the company 6) Being aligned and always doing whatever you think is best for the company 7) Being aligned and always doing whatever you think is best for the company 8) Being aligned and always doing whatever you think is best for the company 9) Being aligned and always doing whatever you think is best for the company 10) Being aligned and always doing whatever you think is best for the company 11) Being nice and fair to people 12) Being nice and fair to people 13) Being nice and fair to people 14) Being nice and fair to people 15) Being nice and fair to people 16) Working hard 17) Working hard 18) Working hard 19) Working hard 20) Working hard 21) Being smart 22) Having good instincts 23) Communicating well
ALT
I, SBF, basically think both Alameda and Modulo are really aligned and make reasonable thoughtful decisions. But I don’t think there’s fully mutual knowledge about that. And so even though, at the core, both Alameda and Modulo are aligned with each other, they don’t fully realize this–and interpret things less favorably than they otherwise would because of it. Tension is created out of thin air, because the people involved don’t go into it 100% confident there couldn’t be tension. The possibility of tension created tension. Anyway, maybe I’m wrong about some of the above. But I think it’s probably basically correct. And so I think what needs to happen, here, is to collapse the uncanny valley. Uncanny valleys are complicated and probabilistic and mixed, but I’m going to take a stab at collapsing it anyway, onto my current best guess at the real truth. Hopefully I’m right. There’s only one way to escape an uncanny valley: you have to collapse it to a single ground truth, and you have to create mutual knowledge of the collapse. Uncanny valleys can live on in peoples’ minds even if they’re otherwise eradicated, so the only way to really collapse the wave function is for everyone to agree that it has been correctly collapsed. So here’s a doc, to collapse this uncanny valley. I’m sharing this doc (comment access) simultaneously to both Alameda and Modulo; you can both confirm that, so this creates full mutual knowledge of my attempt to collapse the wave function.
ALT
#FTX#SBF#crypto
Molly White

The document was to try to iron out a bad relationship between Alameda Research (trading firm with his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison as CEO) and Modulo Capital (trading firm co-founded by his ex-girlfriend Xiaoyun "Lily" Zhang).

Can't imagine why things were strained.

#FTX#SBF#crypto
Molly White

SBF had invested at least $400 million in Modulo Capital, against Ellison's wishes, and at later points spoke of wanting to shut down Alameda and have Modulo replace Alameda's role on FTX.

#FTX#SBF#crypto
Molly White

The shutdown didn't happen at least in part because Gary Wang pointed out he couldn't just shut down a firm that had borrowed billions of dollars in FTX customer funds.

This may be the "logistical/etc. reasons not to merge Alameda and Modulo" that SBF refers to in this document.

#FTX#SBF#crypto
Virginicus

@molly0xfff I’m kind of curious what he thinks a wave function is.

Oct 13, 2023, 02:47 · · Ivory for iOS · 0 · 0
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