Alex Heath
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And if we had listened to the markets, maybe we would have kept the mask on for a little bit longer and we might have avoided the second wave.
Why did you scare my grandma with that comment?
Interesting.
I think that, yeah, I saw that.
I mean, it was taken out of context and people sort of like, you know, took in all sorts of directions.
But really what it means is this notion of
If you believe that markets work, what they do is they discover prices.
They're a very good mechanism for discovering fundamentals.
I think, as you said it in a great way, fundamentals behind something.
And then uncovering as much truth as possible behind that thing.
And so what we're saying is like,
Sure, applying that to companies is very important.
Applying that to commodities or currencies is very important.
But what if we applied it to some of the most important pressing questions about our future?
Could we apply it to a much broader set of things?
And look, from first principles, we live in a world where the ratio of noise to signal has gone up a lot.
Misinformation is everywhere.
Polarization is kind of at an all-time high.
People say different things about everything and you don't know what to, like, you go to Twitter, if you go to my Twitter feed versus yours, we might see literally two entirely different versions of the word.
To us, like, this is kind of a bit of an antidote.