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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Work, Slavery, the Minority Rule, and Skin in the Game

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I Shouldn't Go With the Butcher

If i have a choice between thin rimmed eyeglass and a classic movie casting nof a surgeon forss somebody looks more like a butcher, kind of a slob pants. I pick the one who looks like the butcher. Why? Of course, the argument that things, everything that shines is not gold. But also, there's another selection argument, that that person who doesn't look like a surgeon probably suffered more because of this bias. Andnd, has more more to say. Generalized mostly, i was, of course, concerned with scientific papers, and i noticed that all the great scientific arguments can be written down on napkin. Then you see people who her write

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