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Tenoke comments on Why you should consider buying Bitcoin right now (Jan 2015) if you have high risk tolerance - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Tenoke 14 January 2015 12:41:56PM 1 point [-]

Sure, but they are still a useful heuristic.

Comment author: William_Quixote 14 January 2015 03:47:38PM 2 points [-]

That's fair enouph. So long as it is remembered that it's a heuristic and is used to guide thinking rather than stop thinking it is certianly valuable.

Comment author: evand 16 January 2015 04:49:48AM 1 point [-]

Corollary: if you want to find investments with significantly higher than average expected values, look for structural reasons that a market might be inefficient, or reasons that many smart players might be making the same evaluation mistake.

Note that actually following the above as advice might be extremely hazardous: taken in a different light, it feels a lot like the advice "seek out confirmation bias".