Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you remembered the event, and without realizing it, <i>change t… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you remembered the event, and without realizing it, change the story at every subsequent remembrance.

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About Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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