Robin Hanson
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101 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
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Like we allow people to take risky careers to be actors or musicians or even journalists.
A lot of those wannabes fail,
we let them take those.
Is that the case?
There are definitely people who find them as a distasteful kind of fun, and I think the idea that there's greed or money involved is part of their distaste.
I mean, somebody who wants to be an actor is in some sense greedy for success, but people don't think of that as greed so much for the money, I guess.
Well again, people who succeed often then become financial market traders and enter the finance industry.
So it is a way to try to see if you would be well suited for that.
Think about a bar bet, basically a classic bar bet, right?
People hanging out at the bar, some controversial topic comes up, somebody makes a drunken claim, and somebody else says, No way, want a bet.
Okay, now that's not just a waste of time.
That's a matter of who's right about this, and that's an assertion of your own confidence and knowledge and
Commitment to what you know.
That's not just about other things besides yourself.
That is about you and the other person and who actually knows better.
explains it.
Our standard simple model of financial markets is that they have two kinds of traders.
One kind of trader knows something and they are trading to profit from their information.
The other kind of trader is their trading for any other reason.
And it doesn't really matter what it is.
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