Arbitrage

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Q:Given that 'peer review' is objectively a major danger to innovators, why make it difficult-to-impossible to arbitrage? Cui bono?

1:51 PM ¡ Nov 16, 2009


@GadSaad Ah! Trying to arbitrage a Gadfather permission against the Scaramucci directive?

7:20 PM ¡ Jul 30, 2017


I’ll say it this way. My “lived experience” is different in 3 ways:

A) My learning differences (I.e. disabilities) caused my intelligence, creativity & output to be invisible to essentially every educator I encountered. My own IQ is lower than many imagine due to “processing”.

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

B) We know far more about proven Black analytic abilities and contributions than we do about IQ as a predictor of intelligence.

C) I seem to live in the thick far right tail of Black Genius. Yet my Portal episode with @elewrockjazz was one of my least popular. So: Did I goof?

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

No. I have the best audience in podcasting and even here I believe my audience is just wrong. Eric Lewis is almost incomprehensible to me and I am sure it is because, as the surprisingly low IQ Richard Feynman (125?) once memorably said, his “Machines come from too far away.”

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

I have also seen what @stephstem went through as a colleague of his.

So, I have more faith than most that this is a HUGE arbitrage: IQ is not intelligence and I’ve discovered an enormous discrepancy in the market. I can’t seem to swing a cat without hitting a Black genius.

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

This is contrarian investing 101: you only profit when everybody is confused & thinks you’re an idiot! Well I’m betting that everyone who thinks IQ is intelligence and that Black Americans can’t excel at STEM is wrong. If you follow me you know I think the 🌍 is generally nuts.

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

Lastly, every day I have an experience that parallels Black American lives. I’m neurodivergent & a disagreeable contrarian. So I have an army of people telling me from the moment I get up until I go to sleep that I’m various things I‘m absolutely not with no way to correct them.

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

Ask @ParkerMolloy or @dandrezner and they’ll tell you I’m an idiot or a dullard/liar respectively...despite a Harvard PhD in math. Doesn’t matter! I’m a Dunnig-Kruger poster child to these people. Or I’m a libertarian when I‘m anti-libertarian. Or Alt Right when progressive. Etc.

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

This is what I assume it is like to be Black in a White dominated world: you are lied to about who you are almost every second of every day. You can’t afford to notice it; it’s like not noticing air *because* it is everywhere around you and I see Black analytic genius everywhere.

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

What are the odds that every single teacher you have is terrible? Very low if you‘re Neurotypical. But very high if you‘re Neurodivergent. Well, think of Black Americans as an ENORMOUS neurodivergent invisible community. They aren’t black: they‘re clear & you look right through.

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

So forgive me. I don’t trust the IQ testing. Call it the St. Lucia effect: tiny St Lucia has one of the lowest IQ scoring populations on 🌎 and also one of the Highest Noble Laureates per capita counts. The great thing about this planet is how much arbitrage opportunity exists.🙏

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

And I just want to say thank you to the professional commentariat, the experts, the journalists, the economists, the professors, the politicians & SJWs who make a point of getting almost everything wrong every-single-day. You created the opportunity of a lifetime.

I thank you.🙏

7:29 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020

*Nobel Laureates.

I know: “Your spelling, grammar and incomprehensiblity show that you aren’t the mind you think yourself to be Einstein. You’re embarrassing yourself. Etc.”

Heh heh. I’ll just show my self out and delete my account now...how embarrassing! ;-)

7:37 PM ¡ Jul 15, 2020


The Principal of the Trump Train: For all who got on the train as independent thinkers believing they had spotted an arbitrage against the true cancers in our society, there will be a precise moment they get off the train realizing its full danger. Beware of missing this stop:

4:57 PM ¡ Jan 8, 2021

Look to those who have “stopped out” of their trade. It doesn’t mean embracing Biden or the Media. They are not reasonable. It means being w/o a current plan. It’s better to tread water for a while hoping a ship will pass or land will be seen than to head right for the sea floor.

4:57 PM ¡ Jan 8, 2021

*Principle

4:58 PM ¡ Jan 8, 2021


Unpopular Opinion: musical and STEM intelligences are largely fungible and represent massive human Capital arbitrage opportunities. You may have to clear a lot of confounding cognitive debris out of the way first, but the opportunity exists and is largely unexploited.

4:35 PM ¡ Jan 30, 2021


It’s interesting just how completely the idea of science as part of a non market long term agreement has disappeared.

Let’s make sure we figure out Dark Matter and the Origin of Life by Q3 so we can raise a Series A.

8:26 AM ¡ Feb 20, 2022

Should we allow Nancy Pelosi to invest in Pfizer and Pfizer to establish a nonprofit charitable organization to contribute to @EcoHealthNYC and @TheLancet? That way we can get capital appreciation through recurring Pharma revenue!

Q: Have we all gone completely insane?

8:26 AM ¡ Feb 20, 2022

We definitely need to look into Science as a Service in crowdfunded CRISPR using NFTs to use the wisdom of crowds in worldwide BioHacking competitions to take advantage of Regulatory arbitrage with floating labs in international waters.

Let’s f***ing go! #amiright ?!!!!!

8:33 AM ¡ Feb 20, 2022

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