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Jiro comments on A hypothetical question for investors - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: bokov 03 December 2014 04:39PM

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Comment author: Jiro 03 December 2014 08:07:30PM *  0 points [-]

By your hypothesis the stock has a 50% chance of utter ruin and a 50% chance of doubling every day. That is very unusual.

Comment author: Lumifer 03 December 2014 09:44:32PM *  1 point [-]

Well, the OP hypothetical is very unusual by the same criteria :-P