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QUIXOTIC FINANCE
Personal blog · quixoticfinance.comeconomicsphilosophy
QUIXOTIC FINANCE is a personal blog at quixoticfinance.com about economics and philosophy. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Empty Statistics”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on this finance blog critique Nassim Taleb's work and claims, including his supposed prediction of the financial crisis. Commenters link them when discussing Taleb.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Empty Statistics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-18
What Hacker News says?
Review: http://quixoticfinance.com/the-perennial-criticism-a-review-...
Comment linking /the-perennial-criticism-a-review-of-an-engine-not-a-camera-by-donald-mackenzie/
on “Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets”Submitted Empty Statistics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAfter having seen Talebs Twitter feed, I can't take him serious. He might have (had) some good ideas, but I find it really hard to trust the judgment of a person who berates others on Twitter (e.g. he calls Pinker a charlatan) and think hes the only genius around. And it also seems that people like Pinker don't take him serious anymore (which seems to aggravate him even more). PS: http://quixoticfinance.com/empty-st…
Comment linking /empty-statistics/
on “A career decision influenced by Nassim Taleb”You know, in billiards (pool) you have to actually point to the hole in which you plan to sink the bal. So that if the ball ends up in some hole (but not the one you anticipated), you don't get credit for it. Same here - if you read the piece ( http://quixoticfinance.com/tag/nassim-taleb/ ) it exlains in detail how Taleb's claim to predicting the crisis is 100% off the mark (and the said thing is that he knows it, w…
Comment linking /tag/nassim-taleb/
on “Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2013: Trendspotting in asset markets”Umm..ok. But the point of Black Swan is that certain are unpredictable. Yet plenty of people saw the crisis coming [2,3]. Taleb was not one of them - please see [0] If you are a Taleb fan (or just curious), check out this critique of his work: [0] http://quixoticfinance.com/tag/nassim-taleb/ [1] http://unpleasantfacts.com/falken-on-taleb People who actually predicted the crisis [2] http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Tra…
Comment linking /tag/nassim-taleb/
on “Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2013: Trendspotting in asset markets”