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Last Checked Sept. 18, 2022

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Tue Aug 30 12:32:38 +0000 2022

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

3) To survive, your mind must resist narratives. That's skepticism. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 30, 2022

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2) I've seen in a long career thousands of traders/investors go bust. I've never seen a conspiracy theorist survive. You need natural skepticism, a certain reasonable filter. (Experience is when you see history running forward, not from snapshots filtered by the survival bias.) — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 30, 2022

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4) Another thing that puzzles me. Many conspirationistas love my idea of bureaucrats being IYIs, intellectual yet idiots, while at the same time assuming they have the genius to manage a complicated and seamless plot. How can they hold such contradiction? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 30, 2022

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