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by neom 586 days ago
I was curious about the rich math guy so I looked it up, leaving this here for the next curious person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons :)
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> Simons shunned the limelight and rarely gave interviews, citing Benjamin the Donkey in Animal Farm for explanation: "'God gave me a tail to keep off the flies. But I'd rather have had no tail and no flies.' That's kind of the way I feel about publicity."

I'm glad to read about billionaires with non-poisonous personalities. I'd prefer a world where no individual held such relative power, but next best is a world in which the dreadful oligarchs have foils to balance them out slightly.