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I certainly do. It's my strong impression that so does almost everyone outside of the Less Wrong community and a majority of people in this community, so according to the outside view of majoritarianism I'm probably right.
Taleb's "The Black Swan" is basically a treatise on failures from uses of the outside view.
Of course there are a lot of failures from uses of the outside view. That is to be expected. The problem is that there are a lot more failures from uses of the inside view.
Citation needed (for the general case).