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  • My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.259, Random House