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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas / Pratt, Sean
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Nassim Nicholas Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects-modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classro...

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