awareness of a problem does not mean much — particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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awareness of a problem does not mean much — particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.
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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Portrait adapted from
Wikimedia Commons, Sarah Josephine Taleb (CC BY)
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