tl;dr? what's this mega essay about?
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Financial derivatives are really odd constructions, epistemologically. Have not read essay but interested in the subject.
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@themattsimpson Thick cloud of woo, but you don't trade in billions of $ with woo. Quickly goes over my head but it's not nonsense.
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@themattsimpson I think the program is to shift the ontology from 'the underlying' as foundational to...something about market behavior.
@themattsimpson That's trader speak for the underlying assets a derivative is built on.
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@themattsimpson He's doing something where the realest thing isn't the physical object or the contract of ownership of that object, but...
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@themattsimpson Dude I am trying to tl;dr some stuff I am barely familiar with, not justify it
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