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This anecdote illustrates my intuition that Hanson is wrong in his (fun for him because it's contrarian?) claim that relatively undiversified entrepreunership is rational for the individual:

http://andrewsullivan.theat...

I intuitively favor what I think are the more conventional views that a level of diversification which excedes most forms of entrepreneurship is a more rational approach to wealth-building for individuals, even though high levels of (individually irrational) entrepreneurship is a more rational approach to wealth-building for a society.

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A fun critique of Wolfram's book by someone who appears to be an expert on CA

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~...

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