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Loudergoodyesterday at 7:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

The market is full of people trying to anticipate how other people are going to react and exploit that by getting there first. There's a layer aimed at forecasting what that layer is going to do as well.

It's guesswork all the way down.


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Terr_today at 12:55 AM

A bunch of "Greater Fool" motivation too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

recursiveyesterday at 8:17 PM

Personally, I try to predict how others are going to predict that yet others will react.

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gpderettayesterday at 10:11 PM

Keynesian beauty contest.