Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Essayist and mathematical trader
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- It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
- Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.
- ...we should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
- Never cross a river because it is on average 4 feet deep.
