. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book be… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowballs and arbitrary and unpredictable planet-wide winner-take-all effects.