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Monthly Archives: January 2015

You will never insult a barbarian without using…

You will never insult a barbarian without using his own values, vocabulary, and insults. via You will never insult a barbarian without using… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Skin in the game is a deeply existential thing…

Skin in the game is a deeply existential thing; without it life is just like watching a movie. via (1) Skin in the game is a deeply existential thing;… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Democracy makes India more robust than China, says Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Economic Times

You mentioned in a Foreign Policy article that Saudi Arabia is an easy call if oil falls by $30 a barrel. Now, it is more than $50. How do you see Saudi Arabia going forward? I know that Saudi Arabia is a very, very fragile country, probably the one that’s most fragile for a lot […]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Precautionary Principle and Genetically Modified Organisms | EconTalk

Hosted by Russ Roberts Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Antifragile, Black Swan, and Fooled by Randomness, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a recent co-authored paper on the risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the use of the Precautionary Principle. Taleb contrasts harm with ruin and explains how the differences imply different rules […]

Starting the year with a Monograph and an attempt to Uberize academic publishing

Starting the year with a Monograph and an attempt to Uberize academic publishing. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIQlFtRUVxZGJRZ2s/view via Starting the year with a Monograph and… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.