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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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4/ Application of statistics/probability to stock markets is not about luck either, since beating market beyond historical gains is zero-sum
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7/ Throughout much of its history, psychology has been about mental illness and pathologies rather than making good minds better
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Less-prepared minds lose bets to you, to fund your stable of quants & their server farms. Mass-manufacturing everyone else's hard luck.
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markets that raise the risk bearing capacity of society by better allocations enable new forms of wealth, i.e. long distance sea trade