Recent content by Keile

Yeah but saying that they're doing something useful to the economy is pulling at straws. Finance existed before quants. We had a growing, profitable and stable financial center before quants. Then the quants came in and contributed to one of the sector's worst collapses. I've heard arguments...

I don't understand the argument. So we shouldn't hold negative connotations about physicists going into finance because it's "where the opportunities lie". In analogy, we shouldn't hold negative connotations about physicists working for the Death Star if that is infact where the opportunities...