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" a couple riding in the back of a limo talking about stocks is interrupted by the limo driver - who turns out also to be an avid trader."
"This time is different".
Right.
We too have had unusual problems this year with yellowjackets at our weekend place in Guerneville, north of San Francisco. Having done a little reading on that, I found that yellowjackets tend to become very intrusive at this time of year, because t…
@DrVenture- yes. I was about to mention that- you want to be very careful after a few stings because sometimes people develop a serious allergy after that.
When I was a kid my brother and I, on vacation out in the country, disturbed a yellowjacket …
"Lies that, when repeated daily to an audience with limited capacity, become alternative facts.
It takes a village. We have 1 such villager on these boards."
FullyDeluded1000% comes to mind...
@hank- Which sort of takes us back to my original question- if a great number of gamblers investors are all doing that at the same time, won't that have a significant distortion effect on the markets?
If you think too much about this it can drive you nuts. OK, so above I asked about the accuracy of AI answers, and the response, from some type of AI, was "not so good".
The thing is, how do we know what the accuracy is of the answer that I receive…
Accuracy of AI Systems
General Accuracy Rates
Overall Accuracy: Studies indicate that AI search engines provide incorrect answers over 60% of the time.
Best Performing Model: The most accurate AI model, Perplexity AI, still has a 37% error rate.
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That's pretty interesting. Looking ahead, let's propose that the bugs get worked out of AI, and a basically reliable information source becomes widely available to almost anyone. What sort of impact would that have on financial markets?
Lemme see here... maybe I can work my way through on this.
OK, If smart people don't like Trump, then... oh,I get it! Then people who are stupid would like Trump.
That's pretty cool, because not too many of us here at MFO like Trump.
Lessee now..…
Chicken says, "I have enough, so I am risk averse"
Pig says, "You should own the S&P, even if I do not"
Sheep says, "The market is up, it must be trump's work'
Rooster says, "I follow the market, but fear equities"
Owl says, "Markets go up and d…
I've been very afraid of this from the day that Trump was elected.
I very much fear that our military is eventually going to be forced to take "sides". The "sides" being the unconstitutional usurpation of power by Trump vs the protection of the Con…
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per M* via Schwab-
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So much for "analysts" and "experts". Maybe there's a reason that "analyst" starts with "anal". Even I can pull stuff out of my anal as good as the next guy.
