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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 THE LUDIC FALLACY AND DOMAIN DEPENDENCE
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Sports are commoditized and, alas, prostituted randomness.
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When you beat up someone physically you get exercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the internet you just harm yourself.
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Just as smooth surfaces, competitive sports, and specialized work fossilize mind and body, competitive academia fossilizes the soul.
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They agree that chess training only improves chess skills, but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.
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Upon arriving at the hotel the fellow had a porter carry his luggage; I later saw him lifting free weights in the gym.
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Games were created to give nonheroes the illusion of winning. In real life you don’t know who really won or who really lost (except too late); but you can tell who is heroic and who is not.
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I suspect that IQ, SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to be called intelligent.
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They read Plutarch on an E-reader but refuse to drink Chateau Lynch Bages in a styrofoam cup.
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My best example of domain dependence of our minds, from my recent visit to Paris. At lunch in a French restaurant, my friends ate the salmon and threw away the skin; at dinner, at a sushi bar, the very same friends ate the skin and threw away the salmon.
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Fragility: we have been progressively separating human courage from warfare, allowing wimps with computer skills to kill people without the slightest risk to their lives.
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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 认识论和递减的知识
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自柏拉图以来，西方人的思想和知识理论一直把真伪矛盾作为关注的焦点；尽管这很不错，但我们确实该把关注点转移到强壮与脆弱的矛盾，以及愚人与非愚人的社会认识论上了。
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知识的问题在于，由观鸟者撰写的关于鸟类的书籍，远比由鸟类撰写的关于鸟类的书籍和由鸟类撰写的关于观鸟者的书籍多得多。
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完美的愚人知道猪会盯着珍珠看，但却不知道他自己有时也处在同样的情况中。
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我们需要杰出的智慧和自控力才能承认，许多事情的逻辑是我们所不了解的，并且比我们自己的逻辑更加聪明。
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知识是递减的，不是递增的；是我们减掉的内容（什么行不通，什么不该做），不是我们增加的内容（什么该做）。(1)
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他们认为智力就是注意到有关系的事情（感知事物的模式）；在复杂的世界里，智力就是忽略掉无关的事情（躲避虚假的模式）。
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幸福：我们不知道它是什么意思，怎样测量它，怎样达到它，但我们非常清楚如何躲避“不幸福”。
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天才的想象力远远超过他的学问，书呆子的学问远远超过他的想象力。
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如果教育只包含三个科目，最理想、对社会危害最小的安排是数学、逻辑和拉丁文；拉丁文著作的阅读量要加倍，以补偿数学带来的智慧流失；数学和逻辑只要足够避免说空话和花言巧语就够了。
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影响力最大的四个现代人：达尔文、马克思、弗洛伊德和（作为科学家的）爱因斯坦，他们都是学者，但不是书呆子。在学术界做点真正意义上的事情，从来都是件难事。
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(1) 怎样识别吹牛的人：某人（例如咨询师或者股票经纪人）告诉你该做什么，而不是不该做什么。
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