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Comment by jncfhnb

Sounds like taleb has undermined your understanding of math then.

A 90% chance is worse than a 99% chance. The possibility that you get nothing is not an argument to ignore the context.

Consider Russian roulette. Are you seriously going to argue that the number of bullets in the gun doesn’t matter if you only play one time?

parent jncfhnb 3 years ago

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