What’s in store for 2024? Mihir and Felix are back with their celebrated predictions episode. Will OPEC implode? Are quant funds in trouble? What’s Argentina’s future? Can inflation in the U.S. really sink to 2%? Is plastic the new asbestos? Who will acquire Electronic Arts? Is AIML a verb? Listen in as the hosts (foolishly) predict what the new year will bring. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hello, everyone.
You're listening to After Hours.
I'm Felix.
I'm Mihir.
And it's time for predictions.
Felix, it is time for predictions.
You know how you predict all kinds of things all year long?
Really?
Not only at the end of the year do you ever go back to check.
Are you mostly right, mostly wrong?
You know, I don't that often.
I think part of the fun of it is just thinking about the future.
Yeah.
I don't think you necessarily really want to be constrained by the mistakes you've made in the past.
Having said that, obviously, as you point out, every day we make a thousand predictions and we naturally create intuition out of all those little predictions.
And I think that's a very powerful process.
And so I don't think I've ever formally gone back and really revisited it.
But I think predictions are a way of honing intuition, which has got to be one of the most important skills in life.
That's in part what makes it fun.