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Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan

The Joe Walker Podcast

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This chapter explores the relationship between extremism and probability distributions, particularly examining fat tails versus thin tails. It highlights how identifying potential outliers and large deviations can help individuals assess their extremism in various contexts.

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