Ep. 322: Sophia Roosth Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Sophia Roosth, a Harvard professor that Covel first heard quoted on DNA privacy from Davos. Roosth's research focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first century life sciences. Her first book, based on four years of ethnographic fieldwork, examines how the life sciences are changing at a moment when researchers build new biological systems in order to investigate how biology works. In this work, Roosth asks what happens to "life" as a conceptual category when experimentation and fabrication converge.

The topic is science.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Davos event
What becomes of privacy in a moment of internet surveillance
Having more information out there as a way to control privacy
Biological privacy, and whether our DNA is going down a path where it's a lot more public
Discrimination based on genome
Genetic McCarthyism
Somatic transfer and cloning
The story of Chance the bull
The idea of de-extinction
The ethics of cloning
Molecular gastronomy and world hunger

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:32.9	Before my guest today, let me relay an experience.
0:36.8	I always have these interesting experiences.
0:38.7	It's not that I'm anything special, but I attract interesting experiences.
0:45.3	I gave a presentation recently.
0:47.9	A small group, well-heeled investors, all worth over a million dollars, 25, 30 people.
0:58.5	I asked the group in advance before I spoke, I said, was anyone familiar with my style of
1:03.7	trading, this trend following quant style of trading? They were not. I drew no conclusion from that.
1:10.4	Many people are not familiar with it, even people with lots of money. They were not. I drew no conclusion from that. Many people are not familiar with it,
1:11.9	even people with lots of money. So I had no negative view or anything that I think untoward.
1:20.6	I just said, okay, interesting. I know where I'm at with this particular group. I kind of have to
1:27.0	start from the beginning as best as that I can in 45 minutes and walk
1:31.3	them through trend following with story graphs, charts, market charts, parables, you name
1:41.9	it, real life examples, walk them through.
1:44.8	And I did this over 45 minutes.
1:47.4	Best that I could.
1:48.8	I'm not perfect, but the best that I could.
1:53.3	Many of the questions, and even one of the first questions,
1:56.3	revolved around the issue of, now mind you, this was a group of well-heeled investors,
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