| PART ONE Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation Chapter 1 The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic Chapter 2 Yevgenia's black swan Chapter 3 The speculator and the prostitute Chapter 4 One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker Chapter 5 Confirmation shmonfirmation! Chapter 6 The narrative fallacy Chapter 7 Living in the antechamber of hope Chapter 8 Glacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence Chapter 9 The ludic fallacy, or the uncertainty of the nerd PART TWO We just can't predict Chapter 10 The scandal of prediction Chapter 11 How to look for bird poop Chapter 12 Epistemocracy, a dream Chapter 13 Appelles the painter, or what do you do if you cannot predict? PART THREE Those gray swans of Extremistan Chapter 14 From Mediocristan to Extremistan, and back Chapter 15 The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud Chapter 16 The aesthet |
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