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Intuition – Marvels and Flaws. Daniel Kahneman, Nassim Taleb, Gillian Tett

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Not sure when this happened though it was published 4/29/15.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D32UaYwqyuE

 

Published on Apr 29, 2015

An excellent talk on intuition, instincts and their consequences in decision making featuring Daniel Kahneman, Nassim Taleb, Gillian Tett.
Dr. Daniel Kahneman
Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work on decision-making and “Judgment under Uncertainty.” Currently a Senior Scholar and Professor Emeritus at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His latest book Thinking, Fast and Slow is a New York Times Top 10 for 2011.
Panel Discussion moderated by NYU-Poly Trustee Jeff Lynford and featuring:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader starting a full-time career as a scholar focusing on probability, uncertainty and model error. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU-Poly and the author of The Black Swan (32 languages) and Antifragility (forthcoming, September 2012).
Gillian Tett is a British author and award-winning journalist at the Financial Times, where she is the US managing editor. She is the author of New York Times bestseller “Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets, and Unleashed a Catastrophe”, which won Financial Book of the Year at the Spear’s Book Awards, 2009.

Statistics of Violence as Special Case of Fat Tails

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A lecture summarizing the paper on violence with Cirillo to MIT and NECSI data scientists, mostly explaining to data scientists how to work with fat tails and only indirectly addressing Pinker by responding to those fooled by the illusion of drop in violence:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Dm2ZYeA6U

 

Uploaded on Jul 10, 2015

A lunch discussion at MIT with computer science-data science researchers from MIT and NECSI. The talk is mostly about the methodology for dealing with fat tails, with application to violence.
We show which claims can be made, and which ones cannot be made, from data, and “violence has dropped” is not one of them. We do not focus directly on Steven Pinker’s popular science book (owing to some deficiencies), only indirectly as some people in political science made reference to it.
The paper is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04722

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This is a critical 1 min lecture to understand independence, antifragility, “f** you money”

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This is a critical 1 min lecture to understand independence, antifragility, “f** you money”, selfownership, and many things.
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(This came 8 years after the f*** you money idea was formulated in The Black Swan, except that it missed the critical later development as Fat Tony explained that ” f*** you” is not financial, but a state of mind, people on minimum wage are more likely to have it.)
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(Thanks G. Panterov)


via This is a critical 1 min lecture to understand… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.