Nassim Taleb (Black Swan) open letter to David Cameron

Re:Nassim Taleb (Black Swan) open letter to David Cameron by katamole on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @11:00AM (#770579)

Good ideas, it seems, need to be repeated.

Absolutely not. Ideas that are diffuse and unoriginal, on the other hand, are often repeated because they are uncompelling.

I've read The Black Swan, and although it was entertaining, I didn't feel like I learned anything of value.

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Re:Nassim Taleb (Black Swan) open letter to David Cameron by tc on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @04:16PM (#771376)

Absolutely not.

Bastiat articulated the Broken Window Fallacy in 1850, and here we are 159 years later shredding perfectly good cars to 'create jobs.' It certainly seems like some good ideas can't be repeated often enough.

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