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ARROW_OF_DEMOCRACY

                                             May  9, 2008

                                             BLACK_SWAN

                                               On p.238, I see that Taleb has
                                               Kenneth Arrow filed as one of a
                                               number of Nobel prize winning
Kenneth Arrow among other                      economists who are "under a
things is known for Arrow's                    delusional state under the
Paradox, which is essentially                  effect of mathematics".
a Godel's theorem of political
theory: Arrow showed that
there is no such thing as a
perfect voting system.

   Any set of rules you
   choose is capable of                   One might think that Taleb would
   yielding perverse results.             have some respect for these sorts
                                          of mathematically certain
                                          boundaries on our certainty.





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