Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Universities are turning into corporations, and professors into employees, not s…"
Universities are turning into corporations, and professors into employees, not scholars.
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"The three most addictive substances on earth are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."
"The world is divided into two types of people: those who divide the world into two types of people, and those who don't."
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About Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960)
Lebanese-American probabilist and The Black Swan (2007) author whose work on tail risk and antifragility reshaped finance and policy thinking. Closely associated with Benoit Mandelbrot (fractal mathematician, Taleb's mentor figure). For an intellectual contrast, see Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist and The Better Angels of Our Nature author — Taleb has spent the 2010s publicly attacking Pinker's data-driven 'things are getting better' optimism as naive Gaussian thinking under fat-tailed reality — the loudest public statistics argument of the decade.