Michael Ghilissen

Professor of Business Strategy and Marketing at HEC - ULiege. Researcher in AI and decision science. Disrupt or be disrupted. 🙂

[Michael Ghilissen @mgHEC]

@TheTennisTalker @TravelodgeUK Oh! They will probably try to sell toilet paper rolls at the reception when you check in. Next ... towels? Ironically, this is called hospitality.

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@Tanju_mim Agent

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@godofprompt Agent

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@aiwithmayank Automate

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@thisguyknowsai SEND

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@allen_explains AI

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@setu_ai_expert SCRAPE Thanks

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@coditis @nntaleb Hi Codotis. This is very interesting. What sources, besides tweets, do you consider most useful to study statistics and probability Nassim's way?

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

5. Cat having his own fun.. 😊

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

On X, I can see people & their obsessions.
Some are obsessed with genetic supremacy
Some are obsessed with high fat diets
Some are obsessed with fitness
Some are obsessed with aging
Some are obsessed with their own religion
Some are obsessed with immigration & borders
Some are obsessed with Ramanujan
Some are obsessed with some enemy
Some are obsessed with English country homes
Some are obsessed with the Mediterranean
Some are obsessed with Elon Musk
Some are obsessed with Colonialism
Some are obsessed with Turkish expansionism
Some are obsessed with seed oil
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I am obsessed with good but simple food, crustry bread with olive oil, gravel paths, street life, noisy cafés, silent libraries, walking with friends, and philosophical and scientific rigor.

[Michael Ghilissen @mgHEC]

Falling birth rates raise prospect of sharp decline in living standards https://t.co/bVImn5CoZ6 via @ft

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Milton Friedman was the best

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The more that is spent, the worse it gets, because the money doesn’t go to the homeless, it goes to the hundreds of “charities” that then treat the homeless as sources of revenue.

The more homeless there are, the more money these organizations get, so their incentive is to increase, not decrease, homelessness!

Whatever you incentivize will happen.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

🛤️🚂 Chinese scientists invented a trackless tram.

[Ole Peters @ole_b_peters]

Max Planck's 1946 Goettingen colloquium on scheinproblems is something everyone should know about.
https://t.co/pkoZnzPGZt

Scheinproblems steal your lifetime unless you spot their meaninglessness.

Two examples from economics:
Are markets efficient?
Are humans rational?

[Michael Ghilissen @mgHEC]

@SteadyCompound Thanks for sending me the Warren Buffett Investing Checklist. 👋 🙂

[Michael Ghilissen @mgHEC]

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

[Michael Ghilissen @mgHEC]

Once sanctions are in, it is very difficult to remove them. Same with subsidies, cockroaches, termites, kleptocrats and economic theories.

[Michael Ghilissen @mgHEC]

Heuristic: any negotiation, business or political, that lasts longer than one hour (excl. meals) is no longer a negotiation; it's more like an attempt to verbally resuscitate a dead horse. Usually parties come to agreement by rapid convergence; the rest is filling-in the details.

[Michael Ghilissen @mgHEC]

When a clown moves into a palace, the clown does not become a king – the palace becomes a circus.