Capla comments on Rationality Quotes September 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Capla 06 September 2014 08:40:57PM 3 points [-]

This is not always true (as Taleb himself points out in The Black Swan): in investing the worst that can happen is you loss all of your principle, the best that can happen is unbounded.