Pollard summarises Taleb

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Dave Pollard does a great summary of Nassim Taleb’s thinking. I’m very interested in all the cognitive biases listed there; it’s so easy for us humans to think we know what’s going on when we’re really making up reality based on a few fragments of hard data.

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