Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A simple slide to explain my idea that risk resides necessarily in the nonlinear. A linear risk that produces the same harm for large deviations as a nonlinear (concave) one would scare the s**t out of you. Hence detecting risks consists necessarily in finding nonlinear responses.

(I am lecturing today to bank inspectors. They are good people looking for tricks and heuristics.)

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