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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)
23 May 2018 10 published claims 2 attributable people
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“No, because social media is Lindy. Let me tell you . . . Lindy means that there are things that are robust in time, like some basins that are robust in time.”
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“]of predicting stability of countries based on past stability, which to me is absurd because the metric would tell you that Saudi Arabia, when you’re right at the black swan actually, I came here, I told him.”
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“Then you can accept inequality if the person who’s unequal is taking risks because that would make things rotate.”
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“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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“The first one is that nobody understood the effect of modern weapons because previous conflicts were more local, and more confined.”
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“If we think back to the earlier history of the region — the growing role of the PLO in the country; the end of the Eisenhower Doctrine, which meant maybe the US would not intervene; the prior conflict in 1958; ongoing differences in birth rates with more Muslims being born — wasn’t it, in a sense, actually fairly predictable and not a black swan?”
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“I’m not sure macroeconomists know anything about anything. Because there’s no feedback, so we don’t know.”
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“Because of funding from Saudi Arabia — you indoctrinate two generations, and that’s it.”
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“People bought the narrative because the Christians wanted to be non-Muslim, yet have the same rights.”
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“So I read a lot of stuff. And I think that I would recommend doing the same. Read as much as you can, and try to get the lowest possible passing grades you can at school.”
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