ClaimsNassim Taleb

“It also explains why top-down centralized decisions tend to fail.”

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

Factual Economics and markets

Top-down centralized decisions tend to fail.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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Reasoning

The generalization about top-down decisions tending to fail has undefined terms and scope, so it cannot be tested.

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Nassim Taleb, “Top-down centralized decisions tend to fail.” (said 12 December 2012). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_701f40eac01d, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_701f40eac01d

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