Does Leopold Have Situational Awareness?

Patrick Boyle On Finance by Patrick Boyle

Aug 11, 202600:39:37Business

Last week, 24-year-old Leopold Aschenbrenner — former FTX staffer, ex-OpenAI researcher, and author of the viral 165-page essay "Situational Awareness" — managed to lose roughly two-thirds of his $45 billion hedge fund i...

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