Mary Branscombe: you just know they think they could fight off a wolf and beat Serena Williams at tennis, probably at the same time

please enjoy the reverent, sacred way in which Michael Lewis describes a 6th grader in the 2000s who was hella into Magic cards

cannot get over how funny it is that Michael Lewis interpreted a millennial wearing slovenly clothes and being mediocre at phone games as signs of unique and precious genius

I like how he described chess as being too simple for SBF, whereas any mid-level chess player likely would have checkmated him in 5 minutes or less.

Anybody who says chess is too simple for them is on the same level as the schlubs who tell you they could have "gone pro" after being red-shirted for their freshman year at a low-tier college.

I thought this was going to be about Musk saying chess was too simple for him. I randomly think about that quotation a lot because it reveals so much about his fundamental lack of understanding for many things at once. Chess. Games. Strategy. Theory of mind.

Musk and SBF both said basically the same thing about why chess wasn't good enough for them.

you just know they think they could fight off a wolf and beat Serena Williams at tennis, probably at the same time

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