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#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good


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On this episode of the show, host Rob Wiblin interviews Sam Bankman-Fried.

This interview was recorded in February 2022, and released in April 2022.

But on November 11 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried's company, FTX, filed for bankruptcy, and all staff at the Future Fund resigned — and the surrounding events led Rob to record a new intro on December 1st 2022 for this episode.

• Read 80,000 Hours' statement on these events here.

• You can also listen to host Rob’s reaction to the collapse of FTX on this podcast feed, above episode 140, or here.

• Rob has shared some clarifications on his views about diminishing returns and risk aversion, and weaknesses in how it was discussed in this episode, here.

• And you can read the original blog post associated with the episode here.

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