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After 20 months, completed the math part of SILENT RISK…

After 20 months, completed the math part of SILENT RISK. Now moving into the verbal part on top of the rigorous math apparatus, a codification of terms, making what needs to be precise as precise as possible so inference can be clean. The superimposed verbal part should make ALL math concepts accessible to the logically aware person; this approach is closer to legal philosophy in style. Reading 13th century legal philosophers like Olivi gave me an epiphany: the most important subject in the history of mankind, RISK Applied Probability doesn’t even have as much as a sketch of definitions.I noticed that many papers, researchers, decision-makers conflate many things, especially academics recall the Pinker Problem, with results patently opposite to what they claim. The GMO debacle and the sloppiness of the discussions on Black Swan risks by “scientists” not only clueless about probability but not aware of their ignorance makes this project essential.

via Timeline Photos – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Friends, this is the list of Main Fallacies discussed in SILENT RISK

Friends, this is the list of Main Fallacies discussed in SILENT RISK (technical book in progress), mostly around how our systems of “scientific evidence” fail us with fat tails. I wonder if the list is complete. You are welcome to add some.

(The full book is here in prelim draft https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QISHRiY1VLTkRiS1k/edit)

via Timeline Photos – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Rupert Read and I wrote a short piece on religion…

Rupert Read and I wrote a short piece on religion as conveyor of intergenerational convex heuristics. Instead of putting technical stuff we just conveyed results from “Silent Risk”.

http://econjwatch.org/articles/religion-heuristics-and-intergenerational-risk-management


Religion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management · Econ Journal Watch: Risk…
This article does not concern what might be termed ‘the religious side of religion’ (each of us has written about that elsewhereSee Taleb (2010b, 18-21) and…
econjwatch.org

via Rupert Read and I wrote a short piece on… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.