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by darawk 3654 days ago
Ya, true. There are particular areas though where 'wisdom of the crowds' works much better than any expert, and then there are obviously areas where it does not.

I'm not sure exactly what the properties of each type of problem are, but it doesn't seem at all obvious to me that stock picking is not one in which a sort of herd optimization approach might be very effective.