Nassim Nickolas Taleb shares his view on why “the inexperienced” keep entering crypto with a Utopian vision
Prominent mathematician, former risk manager, modern philosopher, author of bestselling non-fiction books, including “Black Swan”, Nassim Nickolas Taleb has taken to Twitter to share another of his messages with the audience.
This time he touched on the topic of inexperienced investors entering crypto with high expectations and why it continues despite manifold “opportunities” to lose money on scams, volatility, etc.
Taleb tweeted that “the inexperienced tend to be Utopian” with cryptocurrencies and “other techbeciles”. According to the scholar, it is a question of perception. As one lives through events one does not register negative factors but only see thing positively and subjectively.
However, when one looks back, one sees everything from the perspective of “survivorship bias”.
De ce cei neexperimentați tind să fie utopici când asistăm la cripto și alți tehnici?
Când te gândești la trecut, primești lucruri stricate de părtinirea supraviețuirii. Când trăiești evenimente, înregistrezi toată mizeria și prostiile care nu ajung.
(Discuția de la Londra în #TheBlack Swan)- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) December 10, 2022
A few years ago, Taleb praised crypto and Bitcoin in particular as opposed to banks. However, he then turned into a vocal crypto hater and now he often publishes tweets, slamming Bitcoin and the whole crypto space. Recently, he called Bitcoin a “tumor” that metastasized because of “Disneyland economy” in the US.
Source: https://u.today/black-swan-author-explains-why-crypto-keeps-attracting-inexperienced-investors