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by kgwgk 829 days ago
> One of the most famous people in probability theory even claimed that it's the ones with finite moments that are rare in practice. (But I couldn't find this quote back, I thought it was Poisson or Laplace)

That sounds more like Kolmogorov than like Laplace. Someone more interested in mathematical issues than in practical questions.