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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Editor of INCERTO, Opacity, and East Med Project: History, Philology, and Genetics
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb in INCERTO
Aug 14, 2016 · 27 min

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb in INCERTO
Jun 20 · 4 min

Pedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scams

Clearing the discourse of abuses and abusers. The more you institutionalize rules of ethical behavior that should be voluntary (say, anti-racism…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb in INCERTO
Mar 5 · 5 min

What do I mean by Skin in the Game? My Own Version

When selecting a surgeon for your next brain procedure, should you pick a surgeon who looks like a butcher or one who looks like a surgeon? The logic of skin in the game implies you need to select the one who (while credentialed) looks the…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb in INCERTO
Feb 25 · 5 min

Putting Skin in the Game into the Reviewers of Skin in the Game

(Skin in the Game was embargoed (meaning no copy was sent to reviewers), as the book explains the agency problem of reviewers. Three UK journos got hold of it and hurriedly wrote revenge reviews, perhaps too hurriedly…

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