Nassim Taleb su finanza, banche e crisi a margine del Discorso Bruno Leoni, Milano 16 novembre 2009 … nassim taleb istituto bruno leoni discorso 2009 crisi banche istituzioni finanziarie indebitamento debito obama mercato g20 cigno nero giocati dal caso black swan fooled by randomness
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This is just so fascinating to see. It’s from her second post of comments related to NTT’s The Black Swan.
Our Lord also did not seem to be in the Father’s plan when He was tried, convicted and marched up to the hill of Golgotha to be crucified. There His enemies mocked Him, demanding, once again, confirmatory evidence: “Why don’t you come down from there if you’re the son of God? Where is He? Why doesn’t He deliver you if you’re really who you say you are??”
Of course the evidence did arrive eventually, but it’s in those dark hours that we most want it and don’t have it and the fact that we don’t is by God’s design.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a philosopher, concerned with human viewpoint, and the limitations of man’s perceptions. He doesn’t touch at all on divine viewpoint — at least not directly, but what I like is how he highlights many of the tendencies we have as humans that make having faith in someone we’ve never seen, having faith in the words of men long dead, as all the while the exact opposite is apparently staring us in the face and “everyone” is telling us how things “really” are, and they aren’t like how the Bible says.
Speaker: Nassim Taleb Playlist: www.youtube.com The “La Ciudad de las Ideas 2009 Re-Evolution” Festival witnessed a very exciting event, where great theologists, philosophers and thinkers debated over the eternal conflict between science and religion, reason with faith and Darwin vs The Bible. The opinions and views expressed are strong, we recommend open-mindedness for its enjoyment. Debaters: Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett (new atheists) vs. Shmuley Boteach, Dinesh D’Souza …
Speaker: Nassim Talib Playlist: www.youtube.com The “La Ciudad de las Ideas 2009 Re-Evolution” Festival witnessed a very exciting event, where great theologists, philosophers and thinkers debated over the eternal conflict between science and religion, reason with faith and Darwin vs The Bible. The opinions and views expressed are strong, we recommend open-mindedness for its enjoyment. Debaters: Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett (new atheists) vs. Shmuley Boteach, Dinesh D’Souza …
“Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers, instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security.”
Dubai World, the sovereign wealth fund that shoulders $US59 billion of the city state’s $US80 billion total debt pile, recently announced it was seeking extensions on its loan repayments. The All Ordinaries index fell 130 points as a result, the largest drop in more than five months. To those that had begun to develop a “numbing false sense of security” following the Australian sharemarket’s strong upward surge, it was a black-swan like shock.