“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.”
I wish he had simply called himself a
effectivezero empathy altruist. It would have saved a lot of other people’s money and a lot of their grief.