If Metallica from the 80s saw what they’ve turned into, the Metallica from the 80s would beat the living shit out of Metallica of today, and wouldn’t stop until people pulled them off.
This 8 minute video by Nassim Taleb will show you how a 70-year-old formula used by quants separates top traders from bankrupt ones
Bookmark & watch it. It will change the way you trade forever. Then read the post below
they should invent whoop but for actually living and having fun
it should track your nicotine + blood alcohol levels and then you could compare them with your friends on a leaderboard
If you shuffle a deck of cards properly, the exact order you get has almost certainly never existed before in human history and never will again.
The number of possible arrangements of 52 cards is 52 factorial, which works out to a number so large that it has 68 digits. To put it in perspective: even if every person who ever lived shuffled a deck once per second since the beginning of the universe, you would still barely scratch the surface of all possible arrangements.
So every time you shuffle a deck, you are most likely holding a sequence that is completely unique in the history of the universe.
We'd probably be better off if:
- No one bought health insurance
- We all bought life insurance instead,
- Your life insurance company was allowed to try and help keep you alive
@robinhanson this type of idea like 30 years ago