Maybe I’ve lived too conservatively but I wonder about privileged guys like SBF who manage to blow up their lives by age 30 like this. Not limited to crypto. There’s Shkreli, Snowden. A few women too. Elizabeth Holmes etc. At least people growing up poor in bad environments have excuses.

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General psyche/personal risk indifference

you see snowden in the same bucket as the others? in terms of personal consequences, or general psyche?

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Definitely some crossed brain wires at least

random thought: wonder if it's related to periods of big shifts in thought e.g. all the romantic poets that died young, lots of 60s artists. Many sociopathic risk takers lose all constraints and blow up early

I was talking to a friend about this yesterday. Our theory is that society somehow produces some risk-neutral/loving individual that hits a jackpot, but they don’t know when to stop. And it all comes crashing when they finally roll a 1

Did you catch the uponly episode with both Shkreli and Do Kwon on? So many wonderful gems. Will be in the Smithsonian one day.

start at 1:13:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YimBTM7kwjc