It's just a blog post. Regular economist articles are better edited, but mainstream economics doesn't make the HN front page. >25 standard deviations has to b

It's just a blog post. Regular economist articles are better edited, but mainstream economics doesn't make the HN front page. >25 standard deviations has to be an exaggeration? I fail to see how any model could ever be that far off the mark. It's easy to be that far off the mark. E.g. assume a normal distribution for a fat-tailed distribution.