Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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 (direct download [...]
Did you know that Soros studied with Popper? I’m half way through this 5 part series where George Soros discusses his philosophy and it’s applications. Here’s the introduction:
You can find the entire video series at the Financial Times site. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/668e074a-bf24-11de-a696-00144feab49a.html?_i_referralObject=11135588&fromSearch=nYou can also subscribe to the Open Society Institute podcast in iTunes. (Link will open [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Taleb talks briefly @ 25 minute mark for about 5 minutes. Mostly on “know what vs. know how”. Caplan wrote The Myth of the Rational Voter. Great Caplan introduction audio lecture from SXSW 2008 at http://audio.sxsw.com/podcast/intera…
Monday, December 21, 2009
Jason Calacanis (Jason and NNT actually met at Edge Master Class 2009) is a serial entrepreneur currently the founder of Mahalo.com. He also hosts ThisWeekInStartups.com, a weekly online tv show featuring interviews with web entrepreneurs. But he also plays poker. So he invited professional poker player Annie Duke onto the show for a special poker-centric [...]
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Audio only highlights of previously mentioned Conversation with David Cameron. Australian radio intro.
Highlights of Nassim Taleb in conversation with UK Conservative party leader David Cameron. They discuss how Black Swan thinking c…
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Speaker(s): Nouriel Roubini, Nassim Taleb, Richard Freeman, Eric WeinsteinAbstract: NADate: 01/05/2009 – 12:10 pmCollection: The Economic Crisis and It’s Implications for The Science of EconomicsURL: http://pirsa.org/09050026/
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PIRSA:09050023TBASpeaker: Nassim TalebAbstract: TBADate: 01/05/2009 – 11:20 amCollection: The Economic Crisis and It’s Implications for The Science of EconomicsURL: http://pirsa.org/09050023/
Speaker: Nassim Taleb
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
This week Nassim Taleb, the economist who lives by the Black Swan Theory, joined Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group and The Fat Tail in our studios. Taleb's message to the world goes like this: Never mind math to manage risk. …
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Nassim Taleb talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the financial crisis, how we misunderstand rare events, the fragility of the banking system, the moral hazard of government bailouts, the unprecedented nature of really, really bad events, the contribution of human psychology to misinterpreting probability and the dangers of hubris. The conversation closes with a discussion of religion and probability.
If you want to be a dentist, it’s rational to assume that if you go to school, get your degree, and set up a dental practice, you will be able to attain a comfortable standard of living. You may be able to project your probable income range with some…