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You know my dad was a PhD in physics wanted to be a theoretician - and JD and his brother was two time Harvard, so I may take the usual bias, but the kind of people I have wondered about recently having a certain kind of cunning are in tech sales. I wouldn’t have given sales a second thought but it takes a certain kind of intelligence to overcome objections, and repeatedly, down to a science and these people close 6-7 figure deals. I’d like to make a study of how they do it.

Do you think you have THAT kind of intelligence?

For example, a simple exercise is “sell me this pen”. I have never (not yet) formally learned how to do it.

I don’t know I think I would say something like “a famous person XYZ uses this exact type pen”. That’s all I got.

Is anything objective in a temporary universe? The more you try to beat out answers the more emptiness comes to fill that hole. 

Am I actually an idiot?

Yes, but being meticulous helps with hiding it. 

Do you think you have THAT kind of intelligence?

Sales intelligence?

Yes, probably. What do I need to do to prove it? 

Im very anti-stingy and Ive helped many people financially. I'm not sure if I could sell something that I thought wasnt worth it, because I'd feel guilty over being deceptive. I'm very good at selling things that I think are worth it, though, including myself.

For example, a simple exercise is “sell me this pen”. I have never (not yet) formally learned how to do it.

Lol. 

Do you need a pen?

I don’t know I think I would say something like “a famous person XYZ uses this exact type pen”. That’s all I got.

That's hilarious.

@Spatial would you like to try to sell me the pen "ofvalue" is talking about? See if you can prove how intelligent you are.

Or we can try to both sell it to someone neutral, like Turncoat. He then chooses whose pen he will buy. Deal?

Turncoat said: 

Am I actually an idiot?

Yes, but being meticulous helps with hiding it. 

Why would I hide it? If I'm an idiot I want the world to know. 

My wife jokes that my workplace hasn't found out my true nature yet. 

Is anything objective in a temporary universe? The more you try to beat out answers the more emptiness comes to fill that hole.

I kept wondering about that but, you know, at the end of the day, I accept plenty of things as objective. No amount of philosophizing is going to truly convince me that I'm a brain in a vat. When it actually comes down to it, my own nature and true beliefs prevent me from "actually" believing that nothing is objective. The whole thing is a game. Once Hitler comes with gestapo theres zero chance you're going to hold on to your belief, because really nobody truly believes it.

When people say objective, you understand what they mean, no?

Turncoat, if I sell you my pen, what do I get in return?

You Can Make Free Money on Polymarket if you know Math article in NYTimes. Can you explain it to me, Jada, or maybe I would understand it if the article were not behind a paywall.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/12/upshot/kalshi-polymarket-prediction-markets-arbitrage.html

I told ChatGPT I think it’s this based on the article available to me: 

I think it’s a linear algebraic equation inequality probably like amount 1 at x rate greater than or equal to amount 2 at y rate to get a profit? Thats what I think anyway)

Source: New York Times: Take Ryan Noel. He worked as an actuary after college but quit last year to arbitrage-bet (or “arb,” as he calls it) full time. He has made more than $1 million since late 2023, almost entirely on live sporting events. “I don’t care about sports at all,” said Noel, 25. “I think watching sports is the most boring thing you can do with your time. I’m a mathematician.” The math is pretty basic. It involves finding two sites with different odds for the same bet. Then you buy one position on one site, and the opposite position on the other site. Because of the disparity, you’ll turn a profit when the bets resolve — regardless of the game’s outcome. When done correctly, and fast enough, there’s almost no way to lose; it’s that elusive free lunch. But more and more Wall Street institutions are pouncing on the opportunity, deploying armies of bots to arb for them in fractions of a second. That speed and volume makes the disparities on prediction sites disappear almost instantly, which in turn makes it harder for human bettors like Noel.

From ChatGPT:

For a few seconds, you might see:

48¢+47¢=95¢

48¢+47¢=95¢

instead of

50¢+50¢=100¢

50¢+50¢=100¢

or

52¢+48¢=100¢

52¢+48¢=100¢

The arbitrageur's job is simply to find those temporary mismatches and buy both sides before they disappear.

The reason firms use bots is that a human sees "95¢ total cost" and thinks "free 5¢." A computer sees it in a few milliseconds and buys thousands of shares before the human can click.

So the mathematics is mostly just:

Cost of all mutually exclusive outcomes<Guaranteed payoutCost of all mutually exclusive outcomes<Guaranteed payoutWhenever that inequality holds, there's an arbitrage opportunity. The difficult part is finding it and executing fast enough.

I THINK I NEED TO SEE THE DIAGRAMS FROM THE ARTICLE to know if I could make a million doing this before the bots erase the opportunities