“The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.” HumansRealExistenceEventsShapesTragedyGrantsNastyHuman ExistenceMeannessAsymmetryRare Events Book:Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history
“In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along [...] there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, "independent" regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections.” PlayEventsIndependentCourtRefuseProtectionSupremeAgencyExtrasExecutivesSupreme CourtJudicialRare Events Author:Ilana Mercer
“The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.” IdeasBlackEventsObservationSwansBlack SwanRare Events Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.” WorldGivingShouldHappensBlackEventsCreditSwansBlack SwanRare Events Author:Richard Thaler