My point is not just that real humans capture the world with less adorned/narrated bullshit than academics. What distinguishes the real human from the academic is not experience, but rather the AntiFragile convex risktaking mindset that led to have experience in the first place.

(Obviously the point doesn’t affect matters that are meant to be theoretical like mathematics or physics.)

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