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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Rest In Peace, Seth Roberts. He was a man of integrity, of intellectual thirst, and a real friend…

Rest In Peace, Seth Roberts. He was a man of integrity, of intellectual thirst, and a real friend: he truly had skin in the game (he experimented on himself). — We are considering a memorial a-la-Seth: A memorial one-day conference for all his friends and admirers, organized by his pals: John Durant, Tim Ferris, Tucker […]

Lessons from 3 episodes of fasting for ~44 hours.

Lessons from 3 episodes of fasting for ~44 hours. Recall that the Antifragile likes stochasticity and variability (by Jensens’s Inequality), up to a point. So in order to allow myself to comment on the literature on Intermittent Fasting and modeling it mathematically (skin-in-the-game), I just completed today 3 fasts of ~44 hours each over 11 […]

For life to be really fun…

For life to be really fun, a lot of what you fear should correspond with what you desire. via For life to be really fun, a lot of what you… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

156 The Pikettistas’ Reasoning Error

Reminded by a tweet that NNT frequently updates his notebook page. A wealth tax meaning to punish the wealth generator is absurd: since the payoff is severely clipped on the upside, it would be a lunacy to be a risk taker with small probability bets, with wins of 20 (after tax) rather than 100, then […]

Twitter / nntaleb: Aphorisms, Rules, and Heuristics (updated)

Nassim N. Taleb ‏@nntaleb Aphorisms, Rules, and Heuristics (updated) https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIODdHYl95d1dWNE0/edit?pli=1 via Twitter / nntaleb: Aphorisms, Rules, and Heuristics ….