“A... vicious effect of... is that those that are good at predicting the past... think of themselves as good at predicting the future... [W]e live in a world where important events are not predictable...”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Original source
Three: A Mathematical Meditation on History | Fun in My Attic | Skills in Predicting Past History

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