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Not when it keeps being rehashed ad nauseum.

• tc 17y ago
  Maybe he intends to keep rehashing it until people understand. Good ideas, it seems, need to be repeated.
  • biohacker42 17y ago
    It wasn't that great of an idea: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Books/taleb.html http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Books/taleb.html
  • katamole 17y ago
    Good ideas, it seems, need to be repeated. Absolutely not. Ideas that are diffuse and unoriginal, on the other hand, are often repeated because they are uncompelling. I've read The Black Swan, and although it was entertaining, I didn't feel like I learned anything of value.
    • tc 17y ago
      Absolutely not. Bastiat articulated the Broken Window Fallacy in 1850, and here we are 159 years later shredding perfectly good cars to 'create jobs.' It certainly seems like some good ideas can't be repeated often enough.
  • omouse 17y ago
    The only good idea that he has is to repeat and rehash in order to sell more books.