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Comment by jstanley

4 months ago

> The mathematical answer is that if your interest rate is lower than the expected returns of some kind of portfolio you have, than you'll make more money investing.

You maximise expected value not by putting everything into the single highest-EV bet, but by sizing your bets according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

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