They are saying the exact opposite! The whole essay is about how financial markets are not some "mysterious unknown" and are instead predictable systems that are masked in a layer of bullshit that you can lean into and take advantage of. As a non-finance person, understanding "why" obviously terrible ideas get investment helps me understand how the world works. If we replaced the humans in the financial system with APIs, there would be inputs (pitch deck, founder persona, whatever) that can cleverly lead to an intended solution (raising capital, starting a company) in the same way that I could find a vulnerability on RuneScape or Eve Online, which I'm sure satisfies the traditional "hacker" definition. It's obviously not that cut-and-dry, but approaching the world in the "hacker mindset" is about observing and manipulating these systems.
> The whole essay is about how financial markets are not some "mysterious unknown" and are instead predictable systems that are masked in a layer of bullshit that you can lean into and take advantage of.
If someone goes out of their way to tell you about a thing in detail, emphasizing how it's not a mysterious unknown, the conceit is that they think that you thought it was a mysterious unknown, and they are removing the blinders from your poor ignorant eyes.
> As a non-finance person, understanding "why" obviously terrible ideas get investment helps me understand how the world works.
> If we replaced the humans in the financial system with APIs, there would be inputs (pitch deck, founder persona, whatever) that can cleverly lead to an intended solution (raising capital, starting a company) in the same way that I could find a vulnerability on RuneScape or Eve Online
I'm sorry, but you really don't understand how the world works.
> approaching the world in the "hacker mindset" is about observing and manipulating these systems
The hacker mindset is curiosity and discovery, not observing and manipulating. It's one thing to study a thing; it's another to become it.
