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Originally Posted by Antagon
Thanks for the recommendation. Will read into it. And thanks for lending an ear to those ramblings 
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yeah, it's not a "happy" text, but it's not pessimistic either, it just describes the result of network effects in art/literature/music and other markets. from that understanding at least you have a ground from which to get a hold of something.
it also can change your attitude towards the probabilistic nature of things, as opposed to the deterministic one we are taught to believe is the case.
in a way it relates to this as well...
https://youtu.be/36L9cYkHyZM
except taleb talks about math and rubin talks about woo
i believe the math, hahahahaaaa...