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Lindy Effect, GMOs, Shills, Solar Energy, Pope Francis |Twitter @nntaleb

Thursday, August 13, 2015

NNT has been VERY busy on Twitter lately. This is just a sampling from the last few days. Usually but not always, I select Tweets that include links to additional information. https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/631789212686094336 https://twitter.com/benhayesnyc/status/631547333973516288 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/631475970847940608 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/631469357667893248 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/631226823326633984 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/630857997359648769 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/630767097023471616 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/630758660751421440 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/630748570228908032 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/630380237533151232 ANSWER: Every loss of crop raises total ruin 100 fold. Halving crops raises total […]

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Academics find it “irrational” that one can prefer apples to oranges…

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Academics find it “irrational” that one can prefer apples to oranges, oranges to pears, but pears to apples (something called intransitivity of preferences). I leave aside the problem that in real life choices have synchronies: I am not (dynamically) inconsistent if I prefer soup to grapes at the beginning of dinner, but grapes to soup […]

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A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Nassim Taleb about Optionality/Investing | 25iq

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Excellent! See the entire list, link below. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Nassim Taleb about Optionality/Investing 1. ”Optionality is the property of asymmetric upside (preferably unlimited) with correspondingly limited downside (preferably tiny).”  Venture capital, when practiced properly by a top tier firm, is a classic example of a business that benefits from optionality. All […]

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