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{{quote|I have shown that, unless one has an overblown and (as with Greek columns), a very unrealistic representation of some tail risks, one cannot survive – all it takes is a single event for the irreversible exit from among us. Is selective paranoia “irrational” if those individuals and populations who don’t have it end up dying or extinct, respectively? |
{{quote|I have shown that, unless one has an overblown and (as with Greek columns), a very unrealistic representation of some tail risks, one cannot survive – all it takes is a single event for the irreversible exit from among us. Is selective paranoia “irrational” if those individuals and populations who don’t have it end up dying or extinct, respectively? |
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| '''Nassim Nicholas Taleb''', ''[https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-be-rational-about-rationality-432e96dd4d1a How to be Rational about Rationality]'' }} |
| '''Nassim Nicholas Taleb''', ''[https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-be-rational-about-rationality-432e96dd4d1a How to be Rational about Rationality]'' }} |
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{{quote|Paranoia makes such a great hobby -- at the very least, one is never bored.|Ancient net.wisdom}} |
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{{quote|I'm not paranoid, I've just got enhanced consciousness.}} |
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{{quote|"This is the Nineties, Bubba, and there is no such thing as Paranoia. It's all true."|[[Hunter S. Thompson]]}} |
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{{quote|When everyone really is out to get you, being paranoid is just good thinking.}} |
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{{quote|Paranoia is reality seen at a finer scale.|from ''[[Strange Days]]''}} |
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{{quote|Paranoia is a very comforting state of mind. If you think they're out to get you, it means you think you matter.}} |
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