Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

7a) For philistines-trolls, all I am repeating abt competition is the classical way of being, aureas mediocritas, following (not chronol.): Aristotle (of course) rephr. Seneca [cf INCERTO] Quran Sidonius Appolinarius Horace Cicero St Augustine St Jerome Ammianus Marcellinus — PolitiTweet.org

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6) For humans, the only single-variable optimization that makes sense is linked to survival . a- For nature it is reproduction b- For modern humans and medicine it is life expectancy (under constraints, s.a not being in a vegetative state) — PolitiTweet.org

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7b) Martial Petrarch John of Salisbury Pliny-y Pliny-a Eustachus Terence Quintilian Clement of Alexandria Demetrius of Phalerum Chilon of Sparta (attr.) Erasmus Straton of Sardis — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 11, 2022