Is it possible that Serial Brain only seems wacky to us because none of us have the intellect to understand codes and ciphers at the professional level? I mean the Turing kind of level, all the cryptofreaks the Brits hired. They still exist. Serial Brain just lays out the process they use to work through it in a little more detail than most. I mean, it’s not in question that when the president uses misspellings or unusual capitalization it’s a signal that it’s a coded message is it?
no it’s not ... my problem with SB is when he follows such conventions and then deviates based upon otherwise seemingly random things i.e. normally we’d do steps 1-2-3 but since he tweeted on a Sunday instead of a Saturday we’ll offset by 7 instead of 6. which is also not uncommon ... just a stretch often IMO
Is it possible that Serial Brain only seems wacky to us because none of us have the intellect to understand codes and ciphers at the professional level? I mean the Turing kind of level, all the cryptofreaks the Brits hired. They still exist. Serial Brain just lays out the process they use to work through it in a little more detail than most. I mean, it’s not in question that when the president uses misspellings or unusual capitalization it’s a signal that it’s a coded message is it?
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I think that’s part of it - I’m not wired to “get” someone who has his gifts. But I believe he struggles with something I’ve seen other genius types struggle with - they amaze people with their deductions and ideas and receive marked deference for them, and then when one of their “brilliant” analysis is simply and utterly wrong, as happens to all mortals, they don’t believe they made an error and are frustrated with others who say they’re wrong. So sometimes they continue to assert wacky, wrong ideas with the same vigor they assert brilliant ideas.
I think they also feel pressured to always have an answer, so instead of saying, “I don’t know” they feel expected to provide an answer. I’ve watched a vid of Serial’s analysis of Putin giving POTUS a soccer ball for Baron. It seemed like Serial felt required to “know” what it meant and simply floated an idea that was weak as if it was “the obvious” answer. In a later vid, I saw him present a different analysis.
I believe it’s just another side of the coin for those who have startling intellectual gifts, which I think he has. It’s as if they feel pushed out of the realm of “normal” expectations and so they “have to” a) always be right and b) always have an answer.
A friend concealed that he was a genius, but it was hard for him to hide it. One day he was frustrated that he couldn’t loosen the lugnuts on a flat tire. A shy, slow-talking colleague suggested a practical way to apply leverage. The genius was stunned with the simplicity of the solution, kept looking at our colleague in faint disbelief, and seemed to find his own failure to come up with this solution somehow unforgivable.
The genius friend wasn’t vain or arrogant, and didn’t like the attention his intellect received, but was so used to seeing answers others didn’t it really threw him when he was unable to find the answer another had easily provided.
I am most likely to read/watch Serial when no one else has figured something out - he’s likely to think WAY outside the box. There isn’t a metaphor for just far outside conventional thinking he goes - but sometimes it works absolutely brilliantly, so I value his work.
I found it frustrating when he seemed to swagger over answers that are likely wrong, as if the viewer is, by default, obviously not smart enough to see it if they disagree with him. I think he should stay in the “hypothetical” realm more often than he does. It requires patience sometimes, to review his work but it’s often rewarding. I imagine it’s difficult for him to navigate socially as in some sense, his intellect can be a stumbling block. His “different” intellect creates “different” social challenges for him.
I don't dispute the significance in timestamp deltas and misspellings and odd capital letters. But Serial Brain2 takes it to a whole other level. He'll work out the gematria for, let's say, misspelled letters and then says something like, 'that's right we get 226, Peruvian coffee for anyone who knows another value for 226...that's right "Barron Trump went to school". Now we know what the Maestro was really saying.'
He proves his decode by introducing something completely unrelated to the tweet or Q drop he's decoding and loses me every time. I still follow because he fascinates me and I keep hoping that one of these days some light will go on in my head and I'll finally understand. But deep down, I'm not buying it.