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Can shorting be a mechanism of error correction?

I've also noticed incumbent advantage in business. Unless a competitor offers a better product, a company can be as corrupt and lazy as possible.

Can shorting be a mechanism of error correction?

I've also noticed incumbent advantage in business. Unless a competitor offers a better product, a company can be as corrupt and evil as possible.

Then I suggest revising #3968 so that it still captures the sentiment without containing factual falsehoods.

There is overlap but I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing. Many virtues overlap. The purpose of identifying them is to draw focus to different aspects of virtues as such. Conscientiousness and thoroughness are quite similar, but I think different enough to merit mentioning both.

Excellence and pride are more similar IMO, but I think that it is fine to feature both.

Bounties should be clear about what currency they are being paid out in.

Why haven't all atheists killed themselves?

Being as evil as possible would include things like murdering people. I don't think businesses can get away with murdering people just because they don't have viable competitors.

If a business gets away with murdering people, it is usually for other reasons, like creating coverups or lobbying politicians.

I think it is an error to short stocks in most situations.

It might be an error correcting mechanism at the level of the market, but that is not what I am talking about when I say I don't like shorting. This discussion is specifically about making money in the markets.

Dealing in larger sums means you have to make big trades to building meaningful positions. Moving large money in, around, and out of the market takes time and needs to be done carefully (so that the price doesn't get away from you). Small investors can build proportionally large positions much easier.

It is like piloting an oil tanker vs a speed boat.

Dealing with larger sums of money narrows your investable universe.

As an example, Berkshire Hathaway has an investable universe of only a few hundred companies. Everything else is too small to move the needle for them.

There are many great opportunities available only to smaller investors.

Do you mean error correction within the company or at the level of the economy?

Yes, but I think it is largely the interpretation of information that matters.

Different people respond very differently to the same information.

The sentiment of the sentence stands. Even with uncomputable functions, one shouldn't waste time in trying to solve them.

The sentiment of the sentence stands. Even with uncomputable functions, one shouldn't waste time in trying to solve them.

Fixed as of bbcefa8.

Should not autopair behind a word character.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Type 'foo'.
2. With the cursor behind the second 'o', hit single quote: '.
3. The text now reads foo'' but should only read foo'.

After a non-word character (eg linebreak, period, colon, semicolon etc) though, it should still autopair.

Undo/redo stack should preserve cursor position.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start with empty textarea.
2. Type '('.
3. Cursor is now inside '(|)'.
4. Hit undo.
5. Hit redo.
6. Cursor is now behind '()|' but should be inside like in step 3.

By definition, there is nothing in the unknowable, since it can't be known.

This isn’t true. There are unknowable things. Look up uncomputable functions, see eg

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function#Uncomputable_functions_and_unsolvable_problems
• https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/2s2wgy/what_is_an_uncomputable_function/.

So there are things that computers like our brains can never access – there are fundamental, natural limitations.

In this context, I think of mysticism as restricting criticism and preventing error correction, ie creating a man-made barrier for reason. That’s different.

…often they are dealing with larger sums of money, which can make it harder to make higher returns…

Why is it harder to make higher returns for larger sums?

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"Man simply invented God in order not to kill himself, that is the summary of universal history down to the moment."

Dostoevsky

"Man simply invented God in order not to kill himself, that is the summary of universal history down to the moment."

By definition, there is nothing in the unknowable, since it can't be known. One can rationally and with confidence move on and not even entertain anything that claims to be 'beyond human understanding.'

Because these barriers exist, the company does not have to constantly reinvent its core model to survive.

This sentence makes an opposite point if it stopped at "does not have to constantly reinvent," meaning economic moat is slowing down error correction.

Is shorting be a mechanism of error correction?

I've also noticed incumbent advantage in business. Unless a competitor offers a better product, a company can be as corrupt and evil as possible.