People do well on a test of short term memory and pattern recognition and other people think it's a super power. Nassim Taleb's book starts out as self indulge

People do well on a test of short term memory and pattern recognition and other people think it's a super power. Nassim Taleb's book starts out as self indulgent, self aggrandizing nonsense. It's basically summed up as "probability won't help you when something happens that hasn't happened before". You don't say, what an incredible insight for the first 40 pages.