[The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable] (By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb) [published: April, 2007] Cover
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[The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable] (By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb) [published: April, 2007]

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The Dan Bongino Show

The book was mentioned in relation to another book by the same author called "Skin in the Game", which discussed accountability for ideas and their consequences. The podcast host used it to illustrate the lack of consequences for intellectuals whose ideas cause harm.

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You can run through an impressive list of things of disaster Brought about by people with very high IQs.

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The book was mentioned in relation to another book by the same author called "Skin in the Game", which discussed accountability for ideas and their consequences. The podcast host used it to illustrate the lack of consequences for intellectuals whose ideas cause harm.

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You can run through an impressive list of things of disaster Brought about by people with very high IQs.

I mean people whose end products are ideas

if an intellectual who's brilliant has an has an idea to for rearranging society and that ends in disaster, He pays no price at all

he talks about was that hamarabi's code if you build a building and the building collapses like you wind up getting Getting whacked yourself. You had skin.

But it is the extreme example of what happens when intellectuals like pseudo intellectuals like aoc and college professors Who's never had a real job never had a real job spout off at the mouth about socialism and other things and they pay absolutely no penalty for the price the implementation of their ideas and the destruction it causes cause None

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