elharo comments on Rationality Quotes June 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 06 June 2014 07:28:54PM 10 points [-]

As somewhat of a libertarian, I tend to fall into that last group. I have to keep reminding myself that if nobody could outguess the market, then there'd be no money in trying to outguess the market, so only fools would enter it, and it would be easy to outguess.

Comment author: elharo 16 June 2014 11:36:30AM 1 point [-]

There is a great deal of money to be made by entering the market and not trying to outguess it. This is what index funds are about. Thus many non-fools enter the market.

Comment author: DanielLC 16 June 2014 04:50:09PM 3 points [-]

By "enter", I meant try to outguess.

If everyone bought stocks randomly, it would be easy to outguess.