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NNT on Charlie Rose, tomorrow, Feb. 22 2011. Will post links to interview as it becomes available.
Nassim Taleb
with
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
on Feb 22, 2011
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Monday, December 20, 2010
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What if NNT had is own show! That I’d watch.
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — New York University professor Nassim Taleb talks about his new book “The Bed of Procrustes.”
Taleb, author of “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Im…
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Friday, December 17, 2010
“They’re trying to change the wrong variables,” he said. “Instead of changing models or accepting limitations on their models, they have an idea in their head and the world has to fit to it.” HatTip to Dave Lull
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Links to BBC radio interview with NNT. HatTip to Dave Lull.
The intellectual guru Nassim Taleb has published
a collection of philosophical aphorisms.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
The Sunday Time’s Robert Collins wrote a review of The Bed of Procrustes. It’s behind a paywall but NNT was kind enough to make it available from his site. Here’s a direct pdf download link. And thanks to Dave Lull for letting me know. Here’s an excerpt: The likes of Facebook, though, get his epistemological [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Nassim Taleb’s book of aphorisms is now shipping at Amazon. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Saturday, August 14, 2010
HatTip to Dave Lull. Since aphorisms lose their charm whenever explained, I only hint to the reader the main subject of this book, which corresponds to the central theme of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, though rephrased in an aphoristic style — fooledbyrandomness.com/aphorisms.pdf
Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.”