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Watching somebody make the stupidest available choice every time in every circumstance and concluding that I must be witnessing a genius; getting a tattoo of my idol: Wile E. Coyote, the ultimate master of cognition.

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Wile E. Coyote’s problem was that he was too smart for his own good. His plans were intricate and too clever-by-half, they needed weeks of planning and sophisticated, usually untested equipment.

Having your prey defy gravity while you plunge to your doom off a cliff doesn’t help either.

I guess the SBF analogy would be something about other shitcoins staying afloat during a wider crash.

To be fair, most of his equipment was under recall before it even shipped from the Acme factory.

W.E. Coyote was just ahead of his time. Imagine the YouTube revenue he'd get.

Wile E. Coyote was a dumbass. That is the premise of the cartoon.

Wile E. Coyote overthinks it. (not precisely dumbass, but you'd be forgiven for concluding that)

"My card. Wile.E. Coyote, Super Genius.

"stupidest available choice every time in every circumstance" yet was a billionaire? Sure.

If the past ~6 years have taught us anything, it should be that billionaires are every bit as capable at stupidity as the rest of us.

Financial success and intelligence are frequently orthogonal. Stephen Hawking vs Jake Paul: who was smarter - Hawking, who has more money - Paul.

But Hawking was far from poor and Jake Paul might not be as smart as Hawking, but he's a marketing genius. It's just a classic case of the tails coming apart [0]. Financial success and intelligence are definitely related and far from orthogonal.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dC7mP5nSwvpL65Qu5/why-the-ta...

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