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Psychiatrists caution against saying chatbots cause psychosis, but say they are closer to establishing the connection.

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Take, for instance, the scene in “The Big Short” in which Christian Bale—who is playing Burry—tells investors about his bet against the U.S. housing market.

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“Michael, if he had one failing in the dot-com cycle, it was being early to the process. The housing bubble? It was being early to the process,” said Michael Green, a former hedge-fund manager who is now chief strategist at the active-ETF manager Simplify Asset Management and who, like Burry, has warned against popular trends—in his case, passive investing.

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Burry is the kind of outspoken outcast who makes for a good character in a Michael Lewis book: a neurologist by training who made it big in his off-hours betting against Wall Street’s best and brightest.

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Since his successful bet against the housing market, Burry has amassed a legion of online fans who pore over his posts in forums including Reddit’s Burryology.

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