Definitely not crypto, at least not sustainably / predictably. Things along the lines of stock in Tesla, Microsoft, or Google, however, have been performing at such a pace, and I expect in most timelines they will continue that pace in the near future, enough for the expected value to be strongly positive.
(Edit to add:) These stocks, and similar stocks, are in position to take advantage of value generated by trends that are currently starting / are underway, that will produce substantial real-world value, ignorans clades singularitatis, unlike most (almost all) crypto currencies.
Ah, that position makes a lot of sense. Here’s why I’m still in boring market-cap-indices rather than high-growth tech companies:
I think public equity markets are weakly inexploitable—i.e. I expect tech stocks to outperform but not that the expected value is much larger than a diversified index
Incumbents often fail to capture the value of new trends, especially in tech. The sector can strongly outperform without current companies doing particularly well.
Boring considerations about investment size, transaction fees, value of my time to stay on top of active trading, etc.
Diversification. Mostly that as a CS PhD my future income is already pretty closely related to tech performance; with a dash of the standard arguments for passive indices.
And then I take my asymetric bets elsewhere, e.g. starting HypoFuzz (business plan).
Incumbents often fail to capture the value of new trends, especially in tech. The sector can strongly outperform without current companies doing particularly well.
Strong agree on this. But while they may capture only a fraction of the growth, I do expect that they will capture enough to grow substantially (this is, in part, helped by the overall growth I expect to be massive). But there is always a chance that even that doesn’t happen. I do wish I had a better sense of what current upstarts are well-poised to make an even larger profit in the near future.
Diversification. Mostly that as a CS PhD my future income is already pretty closely related to tech performance; with a dash of the standard arguments for passive indices.
This is certainly valid for the extreme size of my proposed allocation, but I suspect that you stand to profit even more from investing in high-growth stocks than you receive directly from your work; also, not all of the growth I expect is directly related to CS / AI, namely covering the Earth with solar panels, then putting solar panels / solar-powered computers into space (also something something nuclear). The latter case is my main justification for owning Tesla stock, and I’d say isn’t overly strongly correlated with CS trends (although not incompletely either).
Definitely not crypto, at least not sustainably / predictably. Things along the lines of stock in Tesla, Microsoft, or Google, however, have been performing at such a pace, and I expect in most timelines they will continue that pace in the near future, enough for the expected value to be strongly positive.
(Edit to add:) These stocks, and similar stocks, are in position to take advantage of value generated by trends that are currently starting / are underway, that will produce substantial real-world value, ignorans clades singularitatis, unlike most (almost all) crypto currencies.
Ah, that position makes a lot of sense. Here’s why I’m still in boring market-cap-indices rather than high-growth tech companies:
I think public equity markets are weakly inexploitable—i.e. I expect tech stocks to outperform but not that the expected value is much larger than a diversified index
Incumbents often fail to capture the value of new trends, especially in tech. The sector can strongly outperform without current companies doing particularly well.
Boring considerations about investment size, transaction fees, value of my time to stay on top of active trading, etc.
Diversification. Mostly that as a CS PhD my future income is already pretty closely related to tech performance; with a dash of the standard arguments for passive indices.
And then I take my asymetric bets elsewhere, e.g. starting HypoFuzz (business plan).
Strong agree on this. But while they may capture only a fraction of the growth, I do expect that they will capture enough to grow substantially (this is, in part, helped by the overall growth I expect to be massive). But there is always a chance that even that doesn’t happen. I do wish I had a better sense of what current upstarts are well-poised to make an even larger profit in the near future.
This is certainly valid for the extreme size of my proposed allocation, but I suspect that you stand to profit even more from investing in high-growth stocks than you receive directly from your work; also, not all of the growth I expect is directly related to CS / AI, namely covering the Earth with solar panels, then putting solar panels / solar-powered computers into space (also something something nuclear). The latter case is my main justification for owning Tesla stock, and I’d say isn’t overly strongly correlated with CS trends (although not incompletely either).