{"id":4325,"date":"2012-04-11T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4325"},"modified":"2012-04-13T02:17:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T09:17:34","slug":"taleb-at-princeton-april-10-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/taleb-at-princeton-april-10-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Taleb at Princeton April 10, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No sign of a recording as of yet. Will post as soon as one comes available.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4343\" title=\"20120410_NassimTaleb_MaggieHua_0510-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/..\/media\/20120410_NassimTaleb_MaggieHua_0510-large-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/..\/media\/20120410_NassimTaleb_MaggieHua_0510-large-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/..\/media\/20120410_NassimTaleb_MaggieHua_0510-large.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"photographer\">\u00a0Taleb opened his lecture with a question: \u201cWhat is the opposite of fragile?\u201d<\/div>\n<p>After a few attempted answers from the audience, Taleb explained that there is no antonym for fragile in common English. He introduced the term \u201cantifragile\u201d as one of the terms he uses to view the stability of systems \u2014 financial, political or otherwise \u2014 the other most important term being \u201cfragile.\u201d Fragile systems, he explained, have a higher risk of \u201cdownside,\u201d meaning that that the introduction of a new variable is more dangerous, while antifragile systems, by contrast, are more resilient.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyprincetonian.com\/accounts\/profile\/2436\/\">Margaret Hua<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyprincetonian.com\/2012\/04\/11\/30572\/\">Taleb lectures on market fragility &#8211; The Daily Princetonian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No sign of a recording as of yet. Will post as soon as one comes available. \u00a0Taleb opened his lecture with a question: \u201cWhat is the opposite of fragile?\u201d After a few attempted answers from the audience, Taleb explained that there is no antonym for fragile in common English. He introduced the term \u201cantifragile\u201d as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[355,488],"class_list":["post-4325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-antifragility","tag-princeton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4325"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4348,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}