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Nassim Nicholas Taleb has referred to this concept as "epistemic arrogance". In "The Black Swan", Taleb defines it the following way:

> Epistemic arrogance: Measure the difference between what someone actually knows and how much he thinks he knows. An excess will imply arrogance, a deficit humility. An epistemocrat is someone of epistemic humility, who holds his own knowledge in greatest suspicion.



Even better coming from Taleb (love him to bits but he's describing himself sometimes)


I don’t know if that quote makes sense. ;)


So you are an epistemocrat?




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