Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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@sebs_tweets @rorysutherland England loves its aristocrats as background decor; it has a merchant culture. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 31, 2022

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MISTAKE I MADE: I missed that 1-Cycling risks drop dramatically w/infrastructure, 2-Infr. wd improve *unexpectedly* fast w/the "Copenhagenization" of Paris/London. 3-The E-bicycle is a VASTLY more intelligent solution than the E-car: transforms every hilly city into Amsterdam — PolitiTweet.org

@nntaleb Apparently Steve Jobs favourite chart, which is why he called the personal computer a bike for the brain.… https://t.co/FuRji893wu

Posted July 30, 2022

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Perhaps the most misunderstood idea in the "empirical" sciences is that a correlation of 90% is closer to 0 than 1. We shd train students to *visualize* rather than absorb formulas nonprobabilist statisticians can't understand. (See my comment on IQ) https://t.co/r5mlHRUMpQ https://t.co/pKfr5nYwmt — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 31, 2022