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		Majromax 6 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always b... 'Enough' [capital] is doing a lot of work in that sentence. In the limit of a one-sided irrational market, the 'rational actor' would need to take the other side of every open transaction.

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cortesoft 5 hours ago [–]

Yeah, but in the limit of a one-sided irrational market, the rational actor is going to be given as much capital as he can take.

eru 4 hours ago | [–]

In the long run. In the short run, our rational actor will be constrained by the Kelly criterion, well and whatever outside funding she can raise.

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