I agree that I’m conflating a few different teaching objectives, and there are dimensions of “epistemics” that that trading in general doesn’t teach. But on this I want to beg forgiveness on the grounds of, if I was fully recursively explicit about what I meant and didn’t mean by every term, the post would have been even longer than it was.
I do have another long post to write with working title “What They Don’t Teach You in Your Quant Trading Internship” about the ways that training in trading doesn’t prepare you for other important things in the world, or will actively interfere with having good intuitions elsewhere.
All that being said, I think that if you think “which feature should I build” doesn’t have something to learn from Toward a Broader Conception of Adverse Selection, I posit that there’s something missing.
I agree that I’m conflating a few different teaching objectives, and there are dimensions of “epistemics” that that trading in general doesn’t teach. But on this I want to beg forgiveness on the grounds of, if I was fully recursively explicit about what I meant and didn’t mean by every term, the post would have been even longer than it was.
I do have another long post to write with working title “What They Don’t Teach You in Your Quant Trading Internship” about the ways that training in trading doesn’t prepare you for other important things in the world, or will actively interfere with having good intuitions elsewhere.
All that being said, I think that if you think “which feature should I build” doesn’t have something to learn from Toward a Broader Conception of Adverse Selection, I posit that there’s something missing.