Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@nntaleb
Flaneur: probability (philosophy), probability (mathematics), probability (real life),Phoenician wine, deadlifts & dead languages. Greco-Levantine.Canaan. #RWRI#
Joined September 2011
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The fancy way think tanks bullshit to dress up their mission to propagandize, distort, and cover up for the powers that be.
Only one piece of information counts: who pays the "researcher".
@nntaleb I think you're being too hard on think tanks, which are not research institutions that generate new knowledge. Though their quality, purpose and legitimacy vary enormously, think tanks have a role to play in linking the world of ideas with the world of political action.
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