{"id":3781,"date":"2011-09-26T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?guid=bbe460023f9cdd61aecf8591ce3088f0"},"modified":"2011-09-26T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T03:00:25","slug":"how-to-live-in-a-world-that-we-don%e2%80%99t-understand-and-enjoy-it-taleb-djmarsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/how-to-live-in-a-world-that-we-don%e2%80%99t-understand-and-enjoy-it-taleb-djmarsay\/","title":{"rendered":"How to live in a world that we don\u2019t understand, and enjoy it (Taleb) | djmarsay"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Shared by  JohnH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHatTip to Dave Lull! Thanks Dave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>Notes from the talk<\/h1>\n<p>Taleb\u00a0returns to his alma mater. This talk supercedes\u00a0his previous work (e.g. Black Swan). His main points are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We don\u2019t have a word for the opposite of fragile.<br \/>\n\u00a0 Fragile systems have small probability of huge negative payoff<br \/>\n\u00a0 Robust systems have consistent payoffs<br \/>\n\u00a0 ? has a small probability of a large pay-off<\/li>\n<li>Fragile systems eventually fail. ? systems eventually come good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared by  JohnH <\/p>\n<p>HatTip to Dave Lull! Thanks Dave.<br \/>\nNotes from the talk<br \/>\nTaleb\u00a0returns to his alma mater. This talk supercedes\u00a0his previous work (e.g. Black Swan). His main points are:<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have a word for the opposite of fragile.<br \/>\n\u00a0 Fragile s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}