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Good review.

Until now, my own impression of SBF was far more skeptical and cynical than the view you ascribe to Lewis, but I don’t think I ever would have thought in terms of psychopathy. (That’s seems at odds with the whole altruism piece of it, but maybe not...)

I had him pegged more as a product of the techno-fetishizing generation: overly confident, reckless and impulsive, fake-it-till-you-make-it, move-fast-and-break-things, often living on prescription drugs and a piss-poor diet. (Then again, I see that personality type everywhere, as my own recent post about Columbus is an example of. Freud might have something to say about that.)

It’d be interesting to know more about that side of SBF’s psychology, but I get the feeling that Lewis’ book is not the place to get that.

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