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The Gospel of Crazy Eye Dog
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Explanatory Knowledge Can Escape From Parochialism
Taleb: Explanatory ideas are able to escape from parochialism. While biological evolution and rules of thumb cannot, he says. This is the fundamental reason why creative thought in general can be more powerful than traditional theories. Taleb on Carl Popper's theory that organisms have to die for genes to improve but our theories can live forever.
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