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

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Comment author: gwern 27 May 2013 12:40:30AM 2 points [-]

but hedge funds are notoriously hard to pry data out of, so I'm not sure we'll get any.

And in this case, a career is being built partially out of claiming that one of the families was a great success and proves the worth of a notoriously egotistic man's ideas, so the situation is even worse than usual.