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ChristianKl comments on Brainstorming for post topics - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 01 June 2014 07:57:48AM 5 points [-]

LessWrong a summary since it seems that a lot of people around here know that they're supposed to be good, but don't really understand all the reasons why

I would think that the reasons are fairly well known, what kind of reasons do you think the average person on LW misses?

Comment author: solipsist 01 June 2014 06:14:05PM *  4 points [-]

I can think of a couple of tidbits, e.g. most small random samples of the S&P 500 will underperform the S&P 500 itself because of <math>.