How you will go bust on a favorable bet. (Kelly/Shannon/Thorp)

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Explains the Kelly criterion and critiques simplistic notions of risk aversion in behavioral finance.

Linked by 6 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including lesswrong.com, rankia.com, rebellionresearch.com, blackswanreport.com, nassimtaleb.org.