Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

4) Notes + Some play the "counterfactual game", say "what if Hitler was born a girl". Some pple may disproportionately affect history; but these are very very rare exceptions. We tend to pathologically anthropomorphize change. + Views here are compatible with Burke's. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kirk_mv Imbecile, Magna Carta was 560 years before the French Revolution. — PolitiTweet.org

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5) Notes + When someone bears the name "soter" s.a. the GrecoSyrian King Demetrius Soter, immortalized by one of Cavafy's finest poems, it is usually for modest claims. Or in Jewish history the closest thing to a "Messiah" is Cyrus. https://t.co/PATVY8e84K — PolitiTweet.org

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