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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A Clash of Two Systems

A Clash of Two Systems

The war in Ukraine is a confrontation between two systems, one modern, legalistic, decentralized and multicephalous; the other archaic…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Apr 19
No, Covid 19 is not an old person problem

No, Covid 19 is not an old person problem

Clearly Covid affects the old, disproportionately. But so do practically almost all other ailments. A simple fact of life, in a population…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nov 29, 2021
Snowden, Phony hence Traitor?

Snowden, Phony hence Traitor?

When you catch someone with a shoddy-but-carefully-curated story, Edward Snowden, producing the mother of bad faith arguments (in effect…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Aug 9, 2021
Safe Heaven

Safe Heaven

Foreword to Mark Spitznagel’s book Safe Haven [Amazon]
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
May 6, 2021
Maestro Bogomolny

Maestro Bogomolny

Foreword for Cut the Knot: Probability Riddles by Alexander B.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nov 18, 2020
Religion, Violence, Tolerance & Progress: Nothing to do with Theology

Religion, Violence, Tolerance & Progress: Nothing to do with Theology

Religions create highly differentiated belief clusters and mentalities that have little to do with their theologies.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Oct 21, 2020
The Masks Masquerade

The Masks Masquerade

Incompetence and Errors in Reasoning Around Face Covering
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Jun 14, 2020
Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You

Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You

(With Mark Spitznagel)
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mar 25, 2020
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

Background : “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Jan 1, 2019
Pedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scams

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…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Jun 20, 2018
What do I mean by Skin in the Game? My Own Version

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…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mar 5, 2018
Putting Skin in the Game into the Reviewers of Skin in the Game

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…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Feb 25, 2018
The Logic of Risk Taking

The Logic of Risk Taking

A central chapter that crystallizes all my work. In forth. Skin in the Game
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Aug 25, 2017
How to be Rational about Rationality

How to be Rational about Rationality

[One of the more technical (and optional) chapters, at the end of Skin of the Game]
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Aug 21, 2017
Quand les chrétiens du Liban ont-ils commencé à parler français ?

Quand les chrétiens du Liban ont-ils commencé à parler français ?

Traduit de l’Anglais (E-U) par Emilio Dib (mes grands remerciements!)
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Aug 5, 2017
Why Each One Should Eat His Own Turtles (Revised )

Why Each One Should Eat His Own Turtles (Revised )

Taste of turtle — Where are the new customers? –Sharia and asymmetry — There are the Swiss, and other people –Rav Safra and the Swiss
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Jul 1, 2017
The Merchandising of Virtue

The Merchandising of Virtue

(Excerpts from Skin in the Game) Sontag is about Sontag — Virtue is precisely what you don’t show
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
May 27, 2017
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