Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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3) MIS-COMPARISON TO ANCIENT GREECE Athletes today are overoptimized animals with crippled life expectancy. They must be in the tails of 100 Million pple for that skill. In ancient Greece, athletes were to be in the tails of 10K people, could not be overoptimized. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 21, 2022

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2) The story: "If you run marathons you do better than a couch potato but worse than a moderately fit person". No. Compare those who run marathons to couch potatoes w/the genetics that make them capable of running marathons BUT are couch potatoes. Science/Statistics is hard. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 21, 2022

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Famous last words. Most people talking about antifragility haven't read what I wrote on antifragility. — PolitiTweet.org

@nntaleb We are anti-fragile. This doesn’t scare me maestro

Posted Jan. 21, 2022