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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)

Conversations with Tyler

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The Humanities, a Close Circuit in the Humanities

i was a ofocipiaand all the commentaries ith my gender study, idonwan. The necitis ot no tin my humanities. So this is why wou can rely on these instructors to teach her the humanities because you don't get tenure from knowing the facts. O get tenure from inventing some structural theory of bathing, beans, an andmite sacin the pur otie. We equally ilate our academics who just have a command of facts. Yes. Tea hoesele for the aves euro for example. Se, i wasn't exactly on the diadects an siie degrees. I studied the exact minimum necessary to pass any exam. But

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