[LapsangGuzzler]

So US intelligence propped up a kid on the spectrum to take money from huge venture capital firms while playing video games during the pitch meetings and running this billion-dollar company on quickbooks, in such a successful way as to remove any trace that they were involved at all? All to launder money? If the goal was to launder money, why not just operate clandestine wallets like every other organized criminal and why wouldn’t they put some sort of guardrails in place to not let the firm blow up? If it’s a government front, wouldn’t someone on the inside be like “maybe let’s not put our name on an NBA arena and pay these huge celebrity endorsements and Super Bowl ads”? How would they be smart to pull this off without detection but dumb enough to let it all blow up?

There’s just no part of this theory that adds up to me.

[chatmasta]

Maybe. But I don't believe SBF is not on the spectrum no matter what he tells you. He strikes me as the prototypical insecure nerd, impressionable and easy to take advantage of.

[dartos]

Maybe it’s just a truthfully “dumb money” with a very sleazy accountant trying to scrape off some crumbs while he could.

[LapsangGuzzler]

Yeah, tbh I’m more interested in that parent looked around and didn’t see any signal in their normal internet hangout spots or found it weird that they hadn’t heard of SBF and immediately came to the conclusion that it’s a government conspiracy. Maybe the average victim doesn’t hang out on Reddit? That seems just a little less out there than the alternative theory posted.