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Nassim N. Taleb: Everything these idiots, frauds, and assholes don't understand

Decoding the Gurus

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Is There a Failure to Hold People Account When They Make Huge Swings?

In the other episode, he was having a much calmer and far reasonable conversation. Butd in this one, he's in big hand wavy mode. He makes good points that often aren't as revolutionary as he's portraying them. They're points which actually have been widely acknowledged by people for decades. And then he'll go on to talk about using advanced mathematics,. like mandel brot's ideas of fractile modelling, in understanding these complex systems. And it's all very vague. So i don't have topresent the details of that. Yes. I think you nare plain these clips as really high lighted for me ther the real contrast between this interview here with the

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