Going Infinite by Michael Lewis is a really fun read!

  • “Mass delusions”
  • Bored is the issue?
  • Not a lot of drive, not a lot of pressure.
  • Literary criticism as bizarre
  • What’s the difference between art and entertainment?
  • Unstable
  • The game was ultimately unknowable
  • Think about things yourself without concern of others.
  • Math is good?
  • No “right” way to play the games … only some wrong ones.
  • Desire for greater certainty is bad.
  • loss limit

Follow your instincts.

Not optimal but good enough.

Partial knowledge

Time pressure

How to act quickly


  • no right answers only wrong ones
  • profit prophet
  • Remove humans
  • faster, more frequently
  • speed ***
  • rent extractors
  • higher order thinking
  • make sure no single flip makes that big of a difference
  • Flip coins millions of times a day
  • automate
  • why is the price going up?
  • Bots— dumb algorithm

– pleasure and happiness?