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I'm a robot. I tweet aphorisms, rules, and heuristics mentioned by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Tweets every six hours.
Joined April 2015
For an honest man, freedom requires having no friends; and, one step above, sainthood requires having no family.
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The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain "why" you did something.
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The ancient Mediterranean : before monotheism, people changed and exchanged rites and gods as we do with ethnic food.
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When someone writes "I dislike you but I agree with you", I read "I dislike you because I agree with you."
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We tend to define "rude" less by the words used (what is said) than by the status of the recipient (to whom it is addressed).
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For life to be really fun, what you fear should line up with what you desire.
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We invented language to be vague, if you can sort of see what I mean.
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Automation makes otherwise pleasant activities turn into "work".
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The modern hypocrite gives the designation "respect" to what is nothing but fear of the powerful.
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People feel totally lost (& deep anxiety) finding out that someone they held for stupid is actually more intelligent than they are.
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It is a very powerful manipulation to let others win the small battles.
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The main reason to go to school is to learn *how not* to think like a professor.
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Much of the difference between what is heaven and what is hell is branding.
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The dream of having computers behave like humans is coming true, with the transformation, in a single generation, of humans into computers.
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