daddyhominum comments on The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: daddyhominum 19 December 2010 11:41:34PM 0 points [-]

Very nice story but the ending is incomplete.

What became of Lord Iron?

Comment author: Alicorn 20 December 2010 12:32:42AM 5 points [-]

He took up cambisting.

Comment author: daddyhominum 24 December 2010 12:54:20AM 0 points [-]

I guess I realized that after I left the computer. Poor bugger!

Comment author: DanArmak 24 December 2010 01:13:30AM *  4 points [-]

It's hardly a terrible penance. Lots of people would prefer half a life of extreme riches and hedonism and then half a life of quiet, useful, technical employment to what they have today.

Comment author: gwern 02 July 2011 06:21:02PM 4 points [-]

Poor? What do you mean? His revealed preferences clearly say that he's better off as a cambist than a Lord Iron! He'd be poorer if he had remained Lord Iron. :)

Comment author: Desrtopa 19 December 2010 11:43:23PM 0 points [-]

An uneventful but respectable life, I imagine.

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