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by dcow 1836 days ago
We're talking about the tone. The author's point is not entirely whacko: "hey plz stop using astrology to make investment decisions, it's stupid". But the tone of "hey look at how stupid Maren and all her 1MM followers are how does this even happen I thought the humans were more sophisticated than this, wow such crypto much stupid" is really kind of unpleasant.

But to your first point: how do you make money on crypto markets? I must have missed this nugget of wisdom in the author's rant.
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grumple 1836 days ago
Do we really have to be respectful of deliberate nonsense? It seems that only serves to validate that nonsense as worthy of serious debate... which it isn’t. This time policing serves only to help spread the ridiculous conspiracy theories, anti-science, and anti-reason.

Taking the high road has repeatedly failed in public discourse.

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dcow 1836 days ago
> ridiculous conspiracy theories, anti-science, and anti-reason

I am more humble than that.

It's not so much that I respect it out of awe or because I think it needs to be validated or is correct. It's that I disagree with such a hyper-rational conviction that there's no possible correlation between astrological events and human behavior (a market is entirely human behavior). Such conviction can be.. dangerous.

I do not believe a market is rational or scientific (they are certainly "efficient" though). I actually find those with a desire to approach such a human phenomenon scientifically to also fall in the anti-science anti-reason bucket, because they do not understand the limits of the scientific method or western rationalism.

When presented with a black-box market:

The scientific method can help you discover a model that answers the question, "how does the market work?".

Science cannot answer the question, "why does the market move?".

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lern_too_spel 1835 days ago
> But to your first point: how do you make money on crypto markets?

The author states this quite clearly. The way to make consistent legal returns off crypto is by selling snake oil to crypto speculators. "She’s leveraged her massive following into several lucrative revenue streams."

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