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Author: [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]] Full Title: Skin in the Game Category: #books Don’t tell me what you “think,” just tell me what’s in your portfolio. But never engage in detailed overexplanations of why something important is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it. To use the language of Antifragile, decentralization is convex to variations. The sad news is that one person looking at mankind as an aggregate may mistakenly believe that humans are spontaneously becoming more moral, better, and more gentle, with better breath, when this applies to only a small proportion of mankind. And one property of these laws: they are black-and-white, binary, discrete, and allow no shadow. We can answer these points using the minority rule. Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, it will eventually destroy our world. Simply, they violate the Silver Rule. It is not permissible to use “American values” or “Western principles” in treating intolerant Salafism (which denies other peoples’ right to have their own religion). The West is currently in the process of committing suicide. IRREVERENCE OF MARKETS

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Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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