Based on what I have read, I think Fried should be in prison... but I wouldnt be surprised some of the many he robbed arent trying to find him and take revenge...
Empowering people good with math is not much different than empowering people good with religious screed. They’re still fallible meat bags.
We keep buying into ephemeral gibberish. When one of these smart people can themselves rewrite immutable laws of reality and literally move planet, I’ll be impressed. Reading a machines manual and making it do is not that impressive.
Someone like SBF is a "trusted" figure, and he just destroyed that trust between himself and all sorts of people. Everyone looks like a fool for touching SBF now, and they are going to be pissed.
Sequoia Capital is already erasing SBF from their webpage for example.
And I think the political donations will actually have almost no beneficial impact now. Because he is going to be broke. They already have his donations and he is now tainted and likely broke going forward, so they have no reason to be loyal.
Humans run on stories, and good storytellers who know how to wash each others backs rise to the top of the food chain.