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description: "The more random the information, the more complex the thing, and thus the harder it is to generalize. The more you generalize, the more orderly you make things, the lower the randomness. Therefore, it is our act of simplification that makes us think the world is less random than it actually is. And black swan phenomena are the things we don't simplify."
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# Excerpted from — Black Swan

The more random the information, the more complex things become, and the harder they are to generalize. The more you generalize and make things orderly, the lower the randomness. Therefore, it is our act of simplification that makes us think the world is less random than it actually is.

  
And black swan events are things we do not simplify.

## Comments (1)

- **Gene_ · 2026-06-04T23:25:44.000Z · 👍 1**: The greatest truths are the simplest.