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Item 16 is an audio interview with NNT from The Economist
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Every aphorism in the book is about a procrustean bed of sorts, he says in the book’s preface. “We humans, facing limits of knowledge, and things we do not observe, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tens…
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Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — New York University professor Nassim Taleb talks about his new book “The Bed of Procrustes.”
Taleb, author of “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Im…
“They’re trying to change the wrong variables,” he said. “Instead of changing models or accepting limitations on their models, they have an idea in their head and the world has to fit to it.” HatTip to Dave Lull
The Sunday Time’s Robert Collins wrote a review of The Bed of Procrustes. It’s behind a paywall but NNT was kind enough to make it available from his site. Here’s a direct pdf download link. And thanks to Dave Lull for letting me know. Here’s an excerpt: The likes of Facebook, though, get his epistemological [...]
nntaleb: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical & Practical Aphorisms”, N N Taleb (of Amioun), c. Jan 2011 www.fooledbyrandomness.com/aphorisms.pdf
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