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Name_Chawps on July 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?

I don't know about the joke format, but the ideology reminds me of the rationalist's version of Baudrillard's simulacra: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/simulacrum-levels

At higher levels of simulacra, the statements people make are less about reality, and more about what they want people to believe they believe about reality.

_oghd on July 26, 2023 [–]

i guess it makes sense that rationalists wouldn't get along with one of the most polemical postmodern french philosophers, but it is funny to read.

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