Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped into Funding AK-47s for Coup

Smart people can be deceived too. Without devolving the conversation into semantics, Garry Kasparov is also someone we would consider to be “smart” by many definitions.

There’s a pretty narrow band of intelligences in quant: any dumber and you can’t make 400k a year playing games for children, any smarter and you start to be able to make 400k a year curing disease or building a reusable rocket or any number of other actually interesting jobs.

So I hear. And we all know smart/rich people can never be duped or make a mistake outside their areas of expertise. /s