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Is There a Future of Infinite Possibilities?

How can you predict a future of infinite possibilities based off a finite? Experience of the past because you're there trying to You know create attention do something original. All big data comes from the same place in the past Okay, so companies that become absolutely obsessed with justifying their future activity on the basis of pre-existing data After some extent as good giga-renza being friend of Taleb says they're over optimizing on the past. The pain Tim Harford's written about this recently in the FT Thankfully crediting me quite a bit pain is driven much more by the level of uncertainty For which we don't have a mathematical unit, okay? Then it is by the duration of the weight

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