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Lumifer comments on Domains of forecasting - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: VipulNaik 09 July 2014 01:45PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 July 2014 08:56:43PM 3 points [-]

A big hole in your list is forecasting of financial markets which is highly lucrative (when it works) and so attracts a considerable amount of effort and talent.

Comment author: VipulNaik 09 July 2014 09:35:40PM 2 points [-]

Good point. I'd looked at financial market forecasting along with macroeconomic forecasting, when I was investigating survey-based macroeconomic forecasting. I have some of the collected material, but I don't think I ever wrote it up. Thanks for reminding me! I'll add it to this post later.