"**Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette**. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands, of chambers instead of six. **After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[fooled-by-randomness]], [[confirmation-bias]], [[continued-influence-effect]], [[default-effect]], [[false-confidence]], [[illusion-of-skill]], [[illusion-of-control]], **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]