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Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, noble, elegant, robust, and heroic life. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
" "Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, noble, elegant, robust, and heroic life.
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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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...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.
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