It’s ok, as long as you remember the maxim that, for every headline that asks a question, the answer is “NO.”
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The paragraphs that purportedly support the headline are
As Mathew Zeitlin notes in Grid, Bankman-Fried was quite open about his philosophical commitment to making reckless financial bets. In an interview with the effective altruist Robert Wiblin last April, SBF argued that EA investors should have a higher tolerance for risk than ordinary rich people. After all, for an individual human being, money has diminishing marginal value. Seeing your net worth grow from $0 to $1 million will do more for your quality of life than seeing your net worth rise $14 billion to $14.1 billion. At a certain point then, the hedonistic billionaire is better off safeguarding their fortune than gambling with it.
But things are different for the philanthropic plutocrat. For them, every additional $1 million translates into more lives saved. If SBF feeds 1,000 hungry children, the world’s remaining malnourished kids don’t become any less desperate for his benevolence. So every dollar counts.
“More good is more good,” Bankman-Fried told Wiblin. “It’s not like you did some good, so good doesn’t matter anymore. But how about money? Are you able to donate so much that money doesn’t matter anymore?”
Everything else is just stuff to read
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Point being, SBF is a grown-ass man. Therefore, SBF is responsible for SBF.
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And effective altruism is just another or attempt to make big biz look less culpable.
Greed is actually good.
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I’m sure there’s two sides to this story.
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Lindybeige has excellent videos on sword vs axe and whether dual-wielding is advantageous (narrator: it isn’t).
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In Gimli vs Aragorn- who has the advantage? Generically speaking.
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Gimli has a better sense of humor, and way better beard skillz.
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But Aragorn has much better throwing skills.
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Shhh! The elf is listening!
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When the writing staff is on strike, who writes the headlines? The UPS driver?
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They should have gone with their print choice:
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 8, 2022, Section A, Page 13 of the New York edition with the headline: Drag Shows, Armed Protesters and Rising Fears of Violence
Even so, only half the article is about threats of armed violence-- they mixed in all this other crap about “a debate in conservative circles over what to do in response.”
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You don’t get to promoting armed violence without positing that there’s a problem you need to do something about.
Drag shows magically become a problem after existing forever somehow.
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