A false accusation of rape has the side effect of inducing skepticism, causing genuine accusations to be taken less seriously. You are also harming t… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us." - N.N.Taleb

He defaults to thinking that what he doesn't see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

To say it bluntly, all the critics of my tail risk ideas and strategies still work and have to work for a living.