A very interesting conversation about forecasting the future (with the Superforecaster guy), where it tends to pick up predictive alpha, the sociological makeup of people who repeatedly make good predictions, etc.https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/philip-e-tetlock/ …
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This included e.g. a simulated cooperative trading game in high school history where the rulebook included the scoring rubric on the last page. "Mr. B, the scoring rubric is on the last page. Am I allowed to use it?" "Go for it Patrick." "GUYS ONLY BUY RAILROADS."
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Some people's proud moment from high school was a first love or winning the big game. Mine was Mr. B saying, after I was utterly ineffective at convincing people that intuitions about diversification were not rewarded by the scoring rubric, "Class: listen to Patrick next time."
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"a score higher than the highest possible score" I see your inner anarchist, my fellow mischievous nerd

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I was insufficiently challenged by maxing out the score for a lot of subjects so I would have to invent achievements to keep things interesting, like artificial time limits, not studying, or (my favorite by a mile) "exploit rules of the test in an unforeseen but legit fashion."
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