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Published · transcript-backedNassim Nicholas Taleb: evaluation
23 May 2018 Conversations with Tyler Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)
“I don’t know if we can divide things so narrowly because men have low life expectancy and have had, in history, low life expectancy.”
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- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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- 23 May 2018
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…When it comes to childbearing decisions, do men have enough skin in the game? [laughter] I don’t know if we can divide things so narrowly because men have low life expectancy and have had, in history, low life expectancy. I don’t know about today in Washington, DC, it’s not reversed. Of course, we have more criminals among men — one ratio is 10 to 1 — and in jail, incarceration, so you have a high rate, maybe not in the bearing of the child, but in doing something else less dangerous. Let me ask you another question about religion. Is volatility, including exchange rates, is it a problem? [laughter]…
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