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Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
Caroline sensed, rightly, that her departure alerted Jane Street to an alarming new threat. Jane Street and the other high-frequency trading firms had been fishing for traders in the same ponds as Will MacAskill and the other Oxford philosophers fished for effective altruists. People able to calculate the expected value of complicated financial gam
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
We need to develop a tougher, more dedicated, and indeed a more stubborn attachment to prosperity and freedom. When you see what this means in practice, you may wince at some of the implications, and you may be put off by the moral absolutism it will require. Yet these goals—strictly rather than loosely pursued—are of historic importance for our ci
... See moreTyler Cowen • Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
One strategy with enduring success: betting on retracements. About 60 percent of investments that experienced big, sudden price rises or drops would snap back, at least partially, it turned out. Profits from these retracements helped Medallion do especially well in volatile markets when prices lurched, before retracing some of that ground.
Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
So I offer you such freedom of the will as exists for some people, some of the time, occasionally leading them to succeed when others fail; maybe moving them to a higher level of consciousness, above their animal ways, to truly human behavior. It’s not a total kind of freedom, as René Descartes describes in Passions of the Soul (1649), where he wri
... See moreSo, optimizing utility changes over many parallel worlds actually also optimizes wealth itself over time. That’s sort of the message.