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I read Antifragile + The Black Swan once every year to remind me of this - and everytime I read something I think about confirmation bias and silent evidence. t
by misiti3780 12y ago
I read Antifragile + The Black Swan once every year to remind me of this - and everytime I read something I think about confirmation bias and silent evidence. they are not tough concepts, but the human brain isn't really weird to think that way - unfortunately (as talked about in Thinking Fast and Slow also)
Taleb, for all his faults, is really good at calling out people for scientific research that contains conflicts of interest - he has been calling out GMO related stuff for the past two or three months on Twitter, before than he became famous for doing it in Finance
- jweir 12y agoTaleb is also an advocate for fasting. https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152175039588375&id=13012333374 https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=101521750395...