{"id":3788,"date":"2011-09-28T19:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T02:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?guid=98e3b9db2cf927213a96fe1e8a948cd3"},"modified":"2011-09-28T19:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T02:05:32","slug":"the-black-swan-a-riveting-commentary-of-disturbing-truths-the-trinidad-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/the-black-swan-a-riveting-commentary-of-disturbing-truths-the-trinidad-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Swan: A riveting commentary of disturbing truths | The Trinidad Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Shared by  JohnH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHatTip to Dave Lull<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He denounces \u201cempirically blind savants,\u201d rejects the Gaussian Belle Curve fixation, and champions a kind of mathematical or empirical skepticism.\u00a0 He advances the theory of Professor Raimund Popper, who states that predicting historical events is possible if one can predict technological innovations. In a sense, the author is a Contrarian, even an Iconoclast. The Black Swan scores as it rails against the herd mentality\u2014our need to be part of the social pattern. This, the author argues, prevents us from predicting the next Black Swan. But can we be the rugged individuals that the author asks of us? Hardly so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared by  JohnH <\/p>\n<p>HatTip to Dave Lull<br \/>\nHe denounces \u201cempirically blind savants,\u201d rejects the Gaussian Belle Curve fixation, and champions a kind of mathematical or empirical skepticism.\u00a0 He advances the theory of Professor Raimund Popper, who stat&#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-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","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=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}