Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
This week in Gell-Mann Amnesia https://i.imgur.com/JVyDZQC.png
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timdaub
@timdaub.eth
The thing is, you cannot expect Sacks, a lucker than won the Monte Carlo simulation, to understand how chance works within a population. If he accepted that, he‘d be aware that he contributed nothing to where he‘s at in his life.
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Andrew
@andrewmassa
Founded Yammer (a unicorn) and was the coo of PayPal, but “contributed nothing to where he’s at in his life”?
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timdaub
@timdaub.eth
Yeah, do you understand Taleb‘s point about Survivorship bias?
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Andrew
@andrewmassa
Isn’t the survivorship bias he is referencing David using the companies that survived, Google etc…, to prove his point? What does that have to do with David’s own track record?
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