Why’s that? He is the stupidest person I can recall meeting in recent times.
It’s not because he doesn’t understand the maths – that’s quite understandable and acceptable. My girlfriend doesn’t understand the maths either, and she’s not stupid.
He’s stupid because he thinks that, despite having no knowledge or understanding of the field, he must know better than the established experts. And I’m not talking about myself, Michael or Nolan, I’m talking about those who have studied and reported on gambling mathematics for the last 40 years – whose work is accepted as accurate by everyone. Except Nick, because he thinks he knows better.
Don’t you think that’s stupid? What do you do when your own calculations seem to differ with those of the professors and the text books? Do you assume that they must have made a mistake and that you are right, or do you assume that it’s more likely you have made a mistake, and then try and learn what it is? I know what I would do.
I wonder if he overrules his doctor’s advice because “it doesn’t seem right” to him. I wonder if, when on a plane, he goes up to the cockpit and gives the pilots his opinion on how they should fly the plane. Wouldn’t that be a bit silly? Stupid even?
Well, that’s what he’s doing here.
“These figures that have been accepted by the mathematical community for 40 years look wrong to me, therefore they must be wrong and I must be right. It doesn’t matter that they have been proved, by methods I am unable to replicate, I must be right anyway.”
That’s pure stupidity, and nothing else. Don’t you think?