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jkaufman 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: jkaufman 15 January 2015 02:58:38PM 3 points [-]

One could think of markets like a pendulum, where price swings from one extreme to another over time, with a very high price corresponding to over-enthusiasm, and a very low price corresponding to despair.

This is very misleading. Pendulums are extremely predictable with continuously varying momentum while markets are anti-inductive.