Like losing millions on mean-reversion? or goign long Thailand bc the cig butts were long and brothels were clean? That's some brilliant thinking right there, yeah.
Looks like Victor Niederhoffer blew up again
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Like losing millions on mean-reversion? or goign long Thailand bc the cig butts were long and brothels were clean? That's some brilliant thinking right there, yeah.
I wonder if he's happy or if he's carrying around a lifelong grudge because
a) he hasn't made the super-mega bucks and people of markedly less intelligence have, and,
b) now that he's an acadmic/intellectual/essayist/thinker, or whatever it is he calls himself, he's still not at the heights of "the academy" and he's probably never going to win a Nobel prize, which of course has been bestowed on many smaller minds.
I watched a long talk (YouTube) given by Taleb and Nobelist Daniel Kahneman, and as Taleb entered the stage, the first thing he did, and continued for the next five minutes (it seemed), was complain about the lights. Kahneman just sat there, bemused.
maybe women find this kind of whining sexy. if you didn't know it there are female groupies who fawn over taleb.
Note, I think that Brighton chap was talking about Taleb, not niederhoffer
Yeah, makes more sense. I missed the last line.
Nantucket, Surf?
You are missing the humor completely. I'm not surprised.
Did Taleb do that? That's whom I'm talking about. And my statement was more about academia in general, not that everything Taleb says or does is brilliant.
No no. I thought we were talking about Vic's MR paper. I glossed over Brighton's Kahneman/Taleb sentence.
Also male ones....
Generally, people just love to worship others, specially famous individuals and we haven't even mentioned the money aspects of the worship, as Taleb isn't really a Bonvivan....