Being the (Pareto) Best in the World - LessWrong
John Wentworth argues that becoming one of the best in the world at *one* specific skill is hard, but it's not as hard to become the best in the worl…
x Being the (Pareto) Best in the World — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2019 Efficient Market Hypothesis Pareto Efficiency Careers Has Diagram Rationality Curated 521 Being the (Pareto) Best in the World by johnswentworth 24th Jun 2019 3 min read 61 521 The generalized efficient markets (GEM) principle says, roughly, that things which would give you a big windfall of money and/or status, will not be easy. If such an opportunity were available, someone else would have already taken it. You will never find a $100 bill on the floor of Grand Central Station at rush hour, because someone would have pi
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