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Benoit Mandelbrot

@bigmandelbrot

Long-term societal trends

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This is an illustration of "appeal to authority". The top panel is crude and could be called a fallacy. The second shows that an appeal to (lacking) authority can be useful. The bottom panel is an actual ad hominem. >Michael Jackson's music is good >Michael Jackson was a pedo

This is an illustration of "appeal to authority". The top panel is crude and could be called a fallacy. The second shows that an appeal to (lacking) authority can be useful. The bottom panel is an actual ad hominem. >Michael Jackson's music is good >Michael Jackson was a pedo