A GOLDEN RULE in ETHICS Take a moment to figure out whether you'd rather be praiseworthy but not praised, or praised but not praiseworthy. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A GOLDEN RULE in ETHICS Take a moment to figure out whether you'd rather be praiseworthy but not praised, or praised but not praiseworthy.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Figured out why 99% of academics have to be misfit, 3rd rate intellectually, by construction. You observe, say in probabilistic matters, yuuge inconsistencies. When you point it out to them, they require a "reference". OK: write the fucking "reference".
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
