{"id":6246,"date":"2013-10-14T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2013-10-14T12:07:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T19:07:05","slug":"it-looks-like-the-logical-faculties-of-humans-have-been-dropping-in-the-age-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/it-looks-like-the-logical-faculties-of-humans-have-been-dropping-in-the-age-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"It looks like the logical faculties of humans have been dropping in the age of the internet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It looks like the logical faculties of humans have been dropping in the age of the internet; mistakes are worse today than they were when I published Fooled by Randomness &gt; 12 years ago.<br \/>When I wrote here &#8220;Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency equals what you wish to show your neighbor&#8221; about 1\/2 of people including 1\/5 here on this site mistook it for an invitation to pay more taxes instead of showing-off much less with your money.<br \/>The error almost always linked to Kahneman&#8217;s attribute substitution: always reduce the problem to something easier to communicate, at the expense of transforming the meaning, Procrustean Bed style. &#8220;We underestimate randomness&#8221; turns into &#8220;It&#8217;s all random&#8221;.Now the 1\/5 people on this site making such mistakes&#8230; it is painful, but we need them to leave.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151764863843375&amp;id=13012333374\">It looks like the logical faculties of&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the logical faculties of humans have been dropping in the age of the internet; mistakes are worse today than they were when I published Fooled by Randomness &gt; 12 years ago.When I wrote here &#8220;Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency equals what you wish to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6248,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions\/6248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}