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Apr 16Liked by Andrew Smith

Those Non-Fungible-Tulip collectors, so silly! We can only laugh at them from here in the future, where nobody is blindly chasing shiny objects.

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That's the great thing about cautionary tales like those written by Aesop around 2500 years ago: all you have to do is warn everyone once, and then, poof! problem gone.

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I'm just dropping in to say that tulips are my favourite flower and I would be all in favour of using them as the official currency of the realm.

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Apr 16Liked by Andrew Smith

Me, after buying a five bucks tulips bouquet at the corner store: "I possess richness unknown to even kings of the past."

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That's me every time I use a smartphone or air conditioning!

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If you were rich and Dutch << I only got the second half there. XD

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You have one more half than I have!

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I wonder if AI itself will create a financial bubble. If there’s one thing we humans love, it’s a shiny new toy!

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AI itself, like autonomous agents fiddling with markets by buying/selling, or AI itself like a bubble based on the tech? Either way, I think it's possible!

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Everyone should read the below about Tulip Mania:

An alternate truth: There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/

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And always remember.

History is not what happened but what is written down - Kathleen McGowan

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Yes, the Tulip Mania episode has been exaggerated, especially the economic consequences for Holland! But I hope I didn't give that impression at all. This was no South Sea Bubble.

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