alt Hacker NewsI'll never understand how these cognitive elites live. They're just a completely different kind of human than the rest of us.
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Nope. Jane Street engineers just love what they do; and do it for fun in their own time and professionally and they love solving puzzles.
They just think for themselves to make money and not what their manager tells them to do unless either the manager or trader believes they will lose money and the game.
The only relevant difference to you is that you must have zero morals or ethics in this game and it is actually a high stress environment behind the videos and engineering propaganda which is the slender difference between beating or losing to other competitors for their clients.
So really stop worshipping them and fuelling their egos as that is what they (Jane Street) want you to do.
What do you mean by “cognitive elites?”
I’ve met some exceptional people: top researchers from top universities from several fields, super well paid engineers working on products you probably use, some of the best hackers an advanced persistent threat actor could ask for; they’re just people.
I think if you get a collection of competent, thoughtful people together they would come up with similar solutions to the problems discussed in this talk.