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Monthly Archives: February 2010

nntaleb: Atheism/materialism means treating the dead as if they were unborn. I won’t. By respecting the sacred you reinvent religion.

nntaleb: Atheism/materialism means treating the dead as if they were unborn. I won’t. By respecting the sacred you reinvent religion.

nntaleb: A idiot-economist said “all models are wrong, some are useful”; shd be “Most models are wrong, some are dangerous; try to know where”.

nntaleb: A idiot-economist said “all models are wrong, some are useful”; shd be “Most models are wrong, some are dangerous; try to know where”.

nntaleb: I wonder if a lion (or a cannibal) would pay a high premium for free-range humans. [modern bondage]

nntaleb: I wonder if a lion (or a cannibal) would pay a high premium for free-range humans. [modern bondage]

nntaleb: Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

nntaleb: Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

First Lecture in the Philosophy of Probability

As mentioned in an earlier Tweet from NNT, here’s the link to his recent Princeton philosophy dept. lecture. Title suggests there will be more. Certainly hope so, although for the more general ‘reader’ such as myself, I do wish someone would create a ‘Fat Tony’ version notes page. http://fooledbyrandomness.com/philo-lecture.htm For some reason the audio file […]