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people look for books that support their mental program.
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had to rely on messenger services. So a local
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Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, not even a spectrum of possible explanations.
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Capitalism is, among other things, the revitalization of the world thanks to the opportunity to be lucky. Luck is the grand equalizer, because almost everyone can benefit from it. The socialist governments protected their monsters and, by doing so, killed potential newcomers in the womb. Everything is transitory. Luck both made and unmade Carthage; it both made and unmade Rome.
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It is a fallacy that suicide bombers are driven by the promise of a reward of some Islamic paradise with virgins and other entertainment, for, as the anthropologist Scott Atran has pointed out, the first suicide bombers in the Levant were revolutionaries of Greek Orthodox background--my tribe--not Islamists. There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mas..
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Antifragile shows how people confuse risk of ruin with variations and fluctuations--a simplification that violates a deeper, more rigorous logic of things.
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Noi, membrii varietatii umane a primatelor, suntem insetati de reguli, deoarece trebuie sa reducem dimensiunile problemelor astfel incat acestea sa incapa in capul nostru. Sau, din pacate, asa incat sa le putem inghesui in cap. Cu cat informatia are un grad mai mare de aleatoriu, cu atat dimensiunile sale sunt mai mari si, astfel, mai greu de sintetizat. Cu cat sintetizam mai mult, cu cat facem mai multa ordine in informatie, cu atat este m..
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Infruntati-va destinul. M-am obisnuit sa rezist tentatiei de a alerga pentru a-mi respecta orarul. Poate fi un sfat neimportant, dar s-a dovedit valabil. Refuzand sa alerg pentru a prinde trenuri, am simtit adevarata valoare a elegantei si a esteticii in comportament, o senzatie a detinerii in permanenta a controlului asupra timpului, programului si vietii mele. Pierderea trenului este dureroasa doar daca alergi dupa el! In mod similar, a n..
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Atat demersurile artistice, cat si cele stiintifice sunt produsul nevoii noastre de a reduce dimensiunile si de a impune lucrurilor o ordine. Ganditi-va la lumea din jur, incarcata de trilioane de detalii. Incercati sa o descrieti si va veti da seama ca sunteti tentat sa teseti o panza cu ce spuneti. Un roman, o poveste, un mit sau un basm -- toate au aceeasi functie: ne scutesc de complexitatea lumii si ne pun la adapost de aleatoriul care..
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Notice that close to two centuries ago people had an idealized opinion of their own past, just as we have an idealized opinion of today's past.
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The entire notion of biography is grounded in the arbitrary ascription of a causal relation between specified traits and subsequent events. Now consider the cemetery. The graveyard of failed persons will be full of people who shared the following traits: courage, risk taking, optimism, et cetera. Just like the population of millionaires. There may be some differences in skills, but what truly separates the two is for the most part a single ..
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Those who use foul language on social networks (such as Twitter) are sending an expensive signal that they are free--and, ironically, competent. You don't signal competence if you don't take risks for it--there are few such low-risk strategies. So cursing today is a status symbol, just as oligarchs in Moscow wear blue jeans at special events to signal their power.
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Daca faci o proiectie pe baza trecutului in mod liniar, continui o tendinta. Dar posibilele devieri viitoare de la cursul trecutului sunt infinite.
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We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn.
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Clearly you cannot manufacture more information than the past can deliver; if you buy one hundred copies of The New York Times, I am not too certain that it would help you gain incremental knowledge of the future. We just don't know how much information there is in the past.
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On alternative histories, a probabilistic view of the world, intellectual fraud, and the randomness wisdom of a Frenchman with steady bathing habits. How journalists are bred to not understand random series of events.
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Como se supone que dijo Stalin (que algo sabia sobre la mortalidad): <>. La estadistica permanece callada en nuestro interior.
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When people get rich, they shed their skin-in-the-game-driven experiential mechanism. They lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences for their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery.
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My experience is that money and transactions purify relations; ideas and abstract matters like "recognition" and "credit" warp them, creating an atmosphere of perpetual rivalry. I grew to find people greedy for credentials nauseating, repulsive, and untrustworthy."
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Robert Rubin, a former Secretary of the United States Treasury, one of those who sign their names on the banknote you just used to pay for coffee, collected more than $120 million in compensation from Citibank in the decade preceding the banking crash of 2008. When the bank, literally insolvent, was rescued by the taxpayer, he didn't write any check--he invoked uncertainty as an excuse. Heads he wins, tails he shouts "Black Swan." Nor did R..
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But we have evidence that collectively society doesn't advance with organized education, rather the reverse: the level of (formal) education in a country is the result of wealth.*2
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Administrators everywhere on the planet, in all businesses and pursuits, and at all times in history, have been the plague.
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La forma de evitar los males de la falacia narrativa es favorecer la experimentacion sobre la narracion, la experiencia sobre la historia y el conocimiento clinico sobre las teorias. Es evidente que un periodico no puede realizar un experimento, pero puede escoger una noticia u otra --hay muchos estudios empiricos que presentar y que pueden ser interpretados--, como yo hago en este libro. Ser empirico no significa dirigir un laboratorio en ..
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Frederic Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadia Gaon, or Joseph de Maistre; he
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Am spus ca se pare ca avem o inclinatie naturala spre platonificare si spre a gandi in termenii materialelor studiate: nimeni, fie el zidar sau filosof al naturii, nu poate scapa prea usor de aservirea fata de aceste conditionari.
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Asta este, probabil, adevarata incredere in sine: abilitatea de a privi lumea fara a simti nevoia sa gasim semne care sa ne maguleasca.
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We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.
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There is more money in designing a shoe than in actually making it: Nike, Dell, and Boeing can get paid for just thinking, organizing, and leveraging their know-how and ideas while subcontracted factories in developing countries do the grunt work and engineers in cultured and mathematical states do the noncreative technical grind
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if something is fragile, its risk of breaking makes anything you do to improve it or make it "efficient" inconsequential unless you first reduce that risk of breaking."
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Nero believes that risk-conscious hard work and discipline can lead someone to achieve a comfortable life with a very high probability. Beyond that, it is all randomness: either by taking enormous (and unconscious) risks, or by being extraordinarily lucky. Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
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What the French call "the caviar left," la gauche caviar, or what Anglo-Saxons call champagne socialists, are people who advocate socialism, sometimes even communism, or some political system with sumptuary limitations, while overtly leading a lavish lifestyle, often financed by inheritance--not realizing the contradiction that they want others to avoid just such a lifestyle. It is not too different from the womanizing popes, such as John X..
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The fallacy is that what one may need to know in the real world does not necessarily match what one can perceive through intellect: it doesn't mean that details are not relevant, only that those we tend (IYI-style) to believe are important can distract us from more central attributes of the price mechanism.
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experiments have shown that players rely on several heuristics. The gaze heuristic is the simplest one and works if the ball is already high up in the air: Fix your gaze on the ball, start running, and adjust your running speed so that the angle of gaze remains constant.
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The theory is the child of the cure, not the opposite--ex cura theoria nascitur.
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Este mult mai dificil sa pierzi intr-un joc pe care l-ai pus la punct tu insuti.
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what you see is likely to be less Black Swannish than what you do not see.
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those who are very good at predicting the past will think of themselves as good at predicting the future,
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The French thinker and poet Paul Valery was surprised to listen to a commentary of his poems that found meanings that had until then escaped him (of course, it was pointed out to him that these were intended by his subconscious).
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Accidentul pozitiv (ca in cazul medicamentului pentru hipertensiune care a produs beneficii colaterale ce au condus apoi la Viagra) a reprezentat metoda centrala a empiristilor in descoperirea medicala. Aceeasi idee poate fi generalizata in cazul vietii: profitati la maxim de intamplarile fericite din jur.
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The notion of "economies of scale"--that companies save money when they become large, hence more efficient--is often, apparently behind company expansions and mergers. It is prevalent in the collective consciousness without evidence for it; in fact, the evidence would suggest the opposite. Yet, for obvious reasons, people keep doing these mergers--they are not good for companies, they are good for Wall Street bonuses; a company getting larg..
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Nu cautati ceea ce este precis si local. Nu fiti ingust la minte. Marele descoperitor Pasteur, care a venit cu ideea ca norocul il favorizeaza pe cel pregatit, a inteles ca pentru a lasa contingenta sa-ti afecteze viata nu trebuie sa cauti ceva anume in fiecare dimineata, ci sa muncesti din greu. Asa cum a spus un alt mare ganditor, Yogi Berra, "Daca nu stii incotro mergi, trebuie sa fii foarte atent, pentru ca s-ar putea sa nu ajungi acolo..
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As a matter of fact, your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive affect," than on their intensity when they hit. In other words, good news is good news first; how good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news."
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If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding.
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Everything nonstable or breakable has had ample chance to break over time.
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