GM11: The Billionaires Protocol ft. Dr. Ben Hunt
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Today, Niels and Cem are joined by Dr. Ben Hunt, Creator of Epsilon Theory, to discuss how he uses game theory, history and behavioral analysis to understand Narrative and how it is used as a weapon to influence human behaviour, how technology has made us more susceptible to "nudging", how Narrative is used to create more competition, division and inequality, how important it is to recognize “the water in which we swim”, the power of Narrative and control of the media, and how to fight back against autocracy in pursuit of happiness, the Billionaires Protocol and much more!
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:02 - Ben’s background
06:03 - When did Narrative start to become dominant?
16:43 - The nudging competetive state
40:43 - The power of Narrative and “control” of the media
49:24 - How do we fight back?
54:08 - Crypto - a liberation tool?
01:03:28 - Lack of imagination
01:08:28 - Thanks for listening
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| 0:00.0 | In our world, in the adult world, right, what we see all the time is you're not really a good |
| 0:12.3 | investor unless you do X, Y, Z, buy this ridiculous security. You're not really a good citizen. |
| 0:19.9 | You're not really a good Democrat or a good Republican |
| 0:22.4 | unless you give money to this ridiculous candidate or vote for this ridiculous candidate. |
| 0:28.4 | Once you start looking for those kind of grammars that are really insults, you know, what are you? |
| 0:33.5 | You know, a Libtar or, you know, what are you? You know, a Trump lover, right? |
| 0:38.9 | That type of grammatical structure, we see that inserted into the DNA of more and more |
| 0:45.4 | messages today. |
| 0:46.6 | And it's something that we as human beings, we respond to. |
| 0:54.0 | Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders. |
| 0:57.0 | Imagine learning from their experiences, their successes, and their failures. |
| 1:02.0 | Imagine no more. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world |
| 1:10.0 | so you can take your |
| 1:11.3 | manager, due diligence, or investment career to the next level. Before we begin today's conversation, |
| 1:17.0 | remember to keep two things in mind. All the discussion we'll have about investment performance |
| 1:21.4 | is about the past, and past performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future |
| 1:26.8 | performance. Also understand that |
| 1:28.7 | there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies, and you need to request |
| 1:33.4 | and understand the specific risks from the investment manager about their product before you |
| 1:38.2 | make investment decisions. Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kostrup Larson. |
| 1:56.0 | A new regime has emerged, perhaps even a new world order, and in our global macro series, I, along with my co-host, Jim Cassin, want to dig deep into the minds of some of the most prominent thought leaders |
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