Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedNassim Nicholas Taleb: prediction
23 May 2018 Conversations with Tyler Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)
“Because of funding from Saudi Arabia — you indoctrinate two generations, and that’s it.”
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- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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- prediction
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- 23 May 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Yes. How to have a branch of Islam, effectively peaceful, allows drinking. I don’t know if you know that. [laughter] So that’s very convenient. [laughter] The problem, that it was destroyed by Saudi Arabian funding. What can we learn from them is how your religion can be destroyed without anybody noticing. The number of Sufis —take Tripoli in Lebanon, it was Sufi. Why did it become non-Sufi? Because of funding from Saudi Arabia — you indoctrinate two generations, and that’s it. How do you find the right mentors in life?…
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