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The whole scheme strikes me as … unsophisticated, especially for two math geniuses.

permo-w 3y ago
in my experience being good at maths doesn't reliably indicate you're good at anything wildly beyond maths. often some related subjects like programming, but not always
- YeBanKo 3y ago
  This can be said about anything. It also appears that they were good specifically at competitive math problem solving. Which one can say even more narrow area of math. Nevertheless, it does correlate with general intelligence and they were a able sell a snake oil to a bunch of investors, so some level of competence they did poses. However, just taking customers’ moneys directly and wiring it straight to execs’ bank accounts is just… too simplistic. Good old donation to a little soccer league where a politician’s spouse sits on the board has more logistics to it.
- waveBidder 3y ago
  is there any evidence they're actually good at math?
  - permo-w 3y ago
    I have no idea
  - Melting_Harps 3y ago
    > is there any evidence they're actually good at math? Both went to MIT and Stanford respectively, then went on to be professional traders (Jane Street Capital); now, one wouldn't think that was all because of who their parents were, right? As in this only possible because of their own merit to be sure. That is how this system works, after all! Honestly, I went to private school, and these idiots reminded me of the children of the affluent who were so irredeemably stupid that their parents will stop at nothing to hide their shame and just pay to have them have some role in a freinds company just to offload them. There is an interview of her saying on record that she doesn't use or need anything she learned in her math degree to do what she does and man... did that come back to bite her in the ass!
    - waveBidder 3y ago
      the rest of that fits with entitled brats, but Jane street surprises me, I had the impression they were fairly meritocratic.
  - YeBanKo 3y ago
    She received some honors from math competitions. And he was in math camps and such. Both have degrees either in math or physics. So yeah, they are above average for sure.

in my experience being good at maths doesn't reliably indicate you're good at anything wildly beyond maths. often some related subjects like programming, but not always

YeBanKo 3y ago
This can be said about anything. It also appears that they were good specifically at competitive math problem solving. Which one can say even more narrow area of math. Nevertheless, it does correlate with general intelligence and they were a able sell a snake oil to a bunch of investors, so some level of competence they did poses. However, just taking customers’ moneys directly and wiring it straight to execs’ bank accounts is just… too simplistic. Good old donation to a little soccer league where a politician’s spouse sits on the board has more logistics to it.
waveBidder 3y ago
is there any evidence they're actually good at math?
- permo-w 3y ago
  I have no idea
- Melting_Harps 3y ago
  > is there any evidence they're actually good at math? Both went to MIT and Stanford respectively, then went on to be professional traders (Jane Street Capital); now, one wouldn't think that was all because of who their parents were, right? As in this only possible because of their own merit to be sure. That is how this system works, after all! Honestly, I went to private school, and these idiots reminded me of the children of the affluent who were so irredeemably stupid that their parents will stop at nothing to hide their shame and just pay to have them have some role in a freinds company just to offload them. There is an interview of her saying on record that she doesn't use or need anything she learned in her math degree to do what she does and man... did that come back to bite her in the ass!
  - waveBidder 3y ago
    the rest of that fits with entitled brats, but Jane street surprises me, I had the impression they were fairly meritocratic.
- YeBanKo 3y ago
  She received some honors from math competitions. And he was in math camps and such. Both have degrees either in math or physics. So yeah, they are above average for sure.