As an empiricist (actually a skeptical empiricist) I despis… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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As an empiricist (actually a skeptical empiricist) I despise the moralizers beyond anything on this planet: I still wonder why they blindly believe in ineffectual methods. Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions. We will see how modern behavioral science shows this to be completely untrue.

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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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Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.

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