{"id":5371,"date":"2012-12-28T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T21:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2012-12-28T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T21:20:57","slug":"correcting-myths-phony-is-ok-harmful-phony-is-the-one-to-watch-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/correcting-myths-phony-is-ok-harmful-phony-is-the-one-to-watch-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Correcting Myths: Phony is OK, Harmful Phony is the one to watch for."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Correcting Myths: Phony is OK, Harmful Phony is the one to watch for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/myths.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/myths.htm<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Golden rule: one is not ethically allowed to tells others what to do unless he is doing it himself, and can suffer harm in case it turns out to be a bad advice. Predictors should be harmed by their prediction errors if these stand to hurt others. As such I cannot give advice, I can only tell readers <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what I do<\/span><\/i>. Likewise, I cannot tell people what I predict, I can just describe my portfolio. This rule prevents people from being harmful phonies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=456958611030969&amp;id=13012333374\">Correcting Myths:&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correcting Myths: Phony is OK, Harmful Phony is the one to watch for. http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/myths.htm &#8211; Golden rule: one is not ethically allowed to tells others what to do unless he is doing it himself, and can suffer harm in case it turns out to be a bad advice. Predictors should be harmed by their prediction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5372,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}