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Another definition of modernit...

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Muscles without strength, frie...

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Forecasting by bureaucrats ten...

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

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Ideas come and go, stories sta...

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

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Aesthetics, ethics, and many g...

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

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You need a story to displace a...

You need a story to displace a story.

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The narrative fallacy addresse...

The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship, upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Karl Marx, a visionary, figure...

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

It is my great hope someday, t...

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

An ad hominem attack against a...

An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

If you sat with a pencil and j...

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.

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My point taken further is that...

My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call 'belief') play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Philosophers talk about truth ...

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.

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Never trust a journalist unles...

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

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Bitcoin is the beginning of so...

Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.

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If you see fraud and do not sa...

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

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What America does best is prod...

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

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I remind myself of Einstein's ...

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18...

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A Stoic is someone who transfo...

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

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The more data we have, the mor...

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....