ClaimsNassim Taleb

“This makes us live in the contradiction that we largely got here to where we are thanks to undirected chance, but we build research programs going forward based on direction and narratives.”

Nassim Taleb 12 December 2012 Understanding Is a Poor Substitute for Convexity (Antifragility) (Edge.org) archived copy

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This makes us live in the contradiction that we largely got here to where we are thanks to undirected chance, but we build research…

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Nassim Taleb, “This makes us live in the contradiction that we largely got here to where we are thanks to undirected chance, but we build research…” (said 12 December 2012). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_4b8e2bb7ff0e, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_4b8e2bb7ff0e

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