fubarobfusco comments on Mathematicians and the Prevention of Recessions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 26 May 2013 08:10:24AM -1 points [-]

How would we go about making it such that someone who contemplated perpetrating that sort of fraud would be very likely to conclude, "Nah, there's no way that would work; if I tried that, I'd just end up in prison like Madoff"?

Comment author: Alsadius 26 May 2013 07:50:26PM 0 points [-]

Trump up the trials, studiously avoid mentioning the obvious fact that there's a bunch of people living large on top of a Ponzi scheme right now.