Eliezer: I regard finance as more of a useful tool than an ultimate end of intelligence—I’m not sure it’s the maximum possible fun we could all be having under optimal conditions.
Perhaps under optimal conditions you’re able to compensate for the lack of buying power of n dollars, where this is the amount that can buy everything that’s for sale, i.e., everything that everyone else combined can generate.
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