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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness i...more

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The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornith...more

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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm...more

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A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

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The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

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They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators