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1/ Historically, though statistics started in gambling, it has been driven by the risk-management motive, not the luck-creation motive
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3/ Though many applications in science/tech are agnostic to risk-versus-luck angle, most social uses are on that spectrum and focus on risk
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5/ i.e. since markets themselves create no wealth, if you beat history, it's because someone else is beaten by history by betting wrong
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