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This awareness turned my Black Swan from a problem of lucky or unlucky people in business into a problem of knowledge and science. My idea is that not only are some scientific results useless in real life, because they underestimate the impact of the highly improbable (or lead us to ignore it), but that many of them may be actually creating Black Swans.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As a first cut, this definition is adequate.
Introducing Artificial Intelligence
Henry Brighton
But though the Builders set Tallulah in motion, in the end their philosophy was Spiral In. To make deep rock, the Builders became deep rock. “I don’t believe it can be done any other way. To understand it well enough to change it, we would have to become it. And then we would have changed ourselves so much that we would no longer want the very thing that we set out to achieve.”
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