Randaly comments on What Rate of Return Should You Expect? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Randaly 07 April 2013 10:58:09PM 3 points [-]

The US is unusually large and developed precisely because it has had abnormally high growth (and also, therefore, high immigration).

Comment author: DanielLC 08 April 2013 02:08:47AM 0 points [-]

It's due to a combination of being old and having sustained abnormally high growth. If it's sustained, then it's not just luck. You can invest in the US and know that it will continue growing like it did before. It's not cherry-picking.

Comment author: gwern 08 April 2013 02:47:24AM 11 points [-]

If it's sustained, then it's not just luck.

Kinda the point of survivorship bias and other selection effects is that you can get what looked like 'sustained' performance just by luck...

Comment author: Decius 09 April 2013 07:12:48PM 1 point [-]

Said many people in every bubble ever.