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Math Can’t Explain the Markets

1 pointsby debdutover 2 years ago

2 comments

nh23423fefeover 2 years ago
Kinda meaningless and incoherent. Explain seems to be used to mean predict. I&#x27;m not even sure what an explanation of markets would even consist of. And somehow that explanation, if it could be presented, would not be mathematical?<p>&quot;Markets&quot; are asserted to be simple, and then contrasted with climate models, which are asserted to be a conspiracy theory. Even though anyone can read the IPCC report and see what is asserted, measured, or modeled.<p>Then we make another leap to QM and determinism and WFC. To what, try and bolster the unsupported idea that prediction isn&#x27;t possible. I&#x27;m sure author is super familiar with einselection and classical limits.<p>Then as an experimental test, we are asked to predict a single data point of apple revenue and that somehow that prediction is the same as making a climate prediction.<p>Super weak. Author is obsessed with the idea of control. So much so that their thinking is controlled by these bad ideas.
eimrineover 2 years ago
Math is here not for explaining something, it is supposed for talking about.