Comment by mtsr

Comment by mtsr 3 hours ago

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I know it’s not popular to bring politics into things on HN, but… From the outside at least, White House policy sounds like at least as much of a black swan event as COVID.

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watwut 40 minutes ago

Black swan event should be unexpected. Trumps victory was within expected possibilities. It was also his second victory.

And his moves after winning were not unexpected either - he is doing what his opponents predicted he will do.

  • littlestymaar 33 minutes ago

    A coronavirus causing a global pandemic at some point was even more expected though.

    And even the erratic government reactions to the pandemic was not entirely unpredictable either to be fair.

  • intended 22 minutes ago

    True. It must be added, that theres two wrenches in the machinery that transforms information into action currently.

    Firstly - The average market behavior is average.

    From experience, most people could not imagine anything of what was predicted, would come true. There is a large … debt of intellectual work that is being underwritten, allowing people to sell narratives which do not correspond to reality.

    This is a direct result of a captured, unfair information environment.

    As a result, the average behavior of the market is not pricing in these things, even if the plans were made clear.