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“ Under opacity and in the newfound complexity of the world, people can hide risks and hurt others, with the law incapable of catching them. Iatrogenics has both delayed and invisible consequences. It is hard to see causal links, to fully understand what’s going on.Under such epistemic limitations, skin in the game is the only true mitigator of fragility. ”

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Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality. One is capable of unwittingly playing Russian roulette - and calling it by some alternative “low risk” game.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb