Markets as 'the most dangerous game': everyone simulating everyone's predictions
willcb · x · 2026-10-19
Expanding on his own tweet about 2030s quant trading, willcb argues markets are the ultimate impossible intelligence problem: every participant is simultaneously simulating everyone else's predictions of the future — "the most dangerous game."
A follow-up opinion piece with limited standalone substance.
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