EA - Sense-making around the FTX catastrophe: a deep dive podcast episode we just released by spencerg

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Sense-making around the FTX catastrophe: a deep dive podcast episode we just released, published by spencerg on November 30, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum.There hasn’t been as much sense-making around the FTX catastrophe as I would have liked, so we worked quickly to put together a special episode of the Clearer Thinking podcast on the topic.We discuss how more than ten billion dollars of apparent value was lost in a matter of days, the timeline of what happened, deception and confusion related to the event, why this catastrophe took place in the first place, and what this means for communities connected to it.If you’re interested, here it is:The first portion covers the timeline of events, and after that there are interviews with 5 guests who give their take on the events:00:01:37 — Intro & timeline00:51:48 — Byrne Hobart01:39:52 — Vipul Naik02:18:35 — Maomao Hu02:41:19 — Marcus Abramovitch02:49:38 — Ozzie Gooen03:21:40 — Wrap-up & outroThanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.