Long-short positions (nuanced positions)
The best relative value trade in human beings:
Grouchy, grumpy, curmudgeonly, hard asses are always undervalued.
Three thoughts on 9/11:
Do not believe in something if it asks you to sacrifice everything.
If you are truly long heroism, you must also be short martyrdom.
Never let a tiny number of deranged dogmatic lunatics convince you that youâll be better off cooperating with them.
We have an auto immune disease. An essential part of us is attacking us. You canât âBurn It all the F downâ even if tempted with your commandeered institutions.
My goal is to try to save the institutions while trying to dislodge the hijackers in their 70s & 80s. #ThanklessGiving
I wonder if you're on the side of technocrats or the rest of us with this comment, Eric
People are always confused: âI donât get it, are you for or against. You are on a fence. Donât BothSides this dude!â
Good luck with that. Iâm:
Long: America and its institutions.
Short: The Fringes and the kleptocratic gerontocracy leading us off a Cliff.
High Trust and Dependence
Vs
Low Trust and Independence
with respect to institutional leadership, is the best replacement for our old âLeft vs Rightâ political spectrum that I have found.
Try it for yourself. I found it to be surprisingly efficient.
In particular, it explains my own politics. I am short the leadership and current experts within our institutions but âagainst burning them all the F downâ. Thus the traditional Right & I agree on part of our current crisis, but this identifies why Iâm not a natural conservative.
I donât trust @twitter leadership which throttles my account. I donât trust universities Coked up on DEI zealotry which wants me to give loyalty oaths. I donât trust Fauci who lies to us. I donât trust that @EcoHealthNYC hasnât been taken over by our military. Etc.
But I also know our history. And it wasnât always like this. Not everyone who has a glass of Chardonnay ends up two weeks later sleeping in the gutter. And I am not having it that all liberalism automatically tends to illiberalism.
So Iâm long institutions, short their new evil.
In particular I donât trust News Services, Universities, Political Parties, Government agencies, that wonât celebrate and hire top heterodox iconoclasts. If you wonât protect Noam Chomsky or Serge Lang in their fields despite their politics, what even are you as a university?
So to sum it up, I donât want institutions run by midwits w/ credentials that want to micromanage our reality. But âBurn it all the F Down!â Only works if itâs restricted to managed reality.
Iâm low trust for current leaders/ experts. But open to the hard work of rebuilt trust..
All are institutions that puport to a higher purpose whilst really just being money making ventures.
@Mangocorona No. Or at least they werenât very recently. A professor had the salary of a dentist but the intellectual freedom of a billionaire until recently. If we could restore that we wouldnât need much FU money. But now we do. BecauseâŠwe blew it on witch-hunting independent thinkers etc.
@EricRWeinstein I assume you also not a big fan of academia anymore? I left my 20 year stint as Oxford professor a year ago, fearful at the time, now just confused why I didnât do that earlier.
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