There are things that I have in common with Bankman-Fried, and that demonstrates that even people from different galaxies can find common ground.
For instance, he always played video games or worked on documents while speaking with people in Zoom or getting interviewed for live TV. Michael Lewis interprets this as meaning that Bankman-Fried was incapable of maintaining contact with other people. Like he was an almost non-verbal autistic who immediately switched off whenever people spoke to him.
But that’s not how it works. I don’t play videogames or work on documents during Zoom conversations to avoid hearing people. To the contrary, I do it because I want to hear. My brain is very busy and if I don’t occupy it, I’ll get distracted and miss everything the person on the other side of the screen is saying.
Lewis is simply projecting his own incapacity to maintain several open and active channels in his brain on Bankman-Fried.
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