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6 Post author: gjm 15 September 2014 12:24PM

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Comment author: sediment 19 September 2014 04:45:11PM 3 points [-]

I remember Nassim Nicholas Taleb claiming exactly this in an interview a few years ago. He let his friends function as a kind of news filter, assuming that they would probably mention anything sufficiently important for him to know.