{"id":5521,"date":"2013-02-07T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2013-02-07T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:03:51","slug":"nassim-taleb-and-daniel-kahneman-black-swan-shows-fragility-under-heavy-weight-of-anchoring-enterprising-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/nassim-taleb-and-daniel-kahneman-black-swan-shows-fragility-under-heavy-weight-of-anchoring-enterprising-investor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman: Black Swan Shows Fragility under Heavy Weight of Anchoring | Enterprising Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, each man was asked to write a biography of seven words or less. Taleb described himself as: \u201cConvexity. Mental probabilistic heuristics approach to uncertainty.\u201d Kahneman apparently pleaded with the moderator to only use five words, which were: \u201cEndlessly amused by people\u2019s minds.\u201d Not surprisingly these two autobiographies are descriptive of the two men\u2019s bodies of work. Much of the discussion at this event, however, was not about making decisions under uncertainty, but a sort of tit for tat, with Kahneman asking probing questions and making pointed observations of Taleb. Little of the Nobel laureate\u2019s work was discussed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cfainstitute.org\/investor\/2013\/02\/06\/nassim-taleb-and-daniel-kahneman-black-swan-shows-fragility-under-heavy-weight-of-anchoring\/\">Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman: Black Swan Shows Fragility under Heavy Weight of Anchoring | Enterprising Investor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly, each man was asked to write a biography of seven words or less. Taleb described himself as: \u201cConvexity. Mental probabilistic heuristics approach to uncertainty.\u201d Kahneman apparently pleaded with the moderator to only use five words, which were: \u201cEndlessly amused by people\u2019s minds.\u201d Not surprisingly these two autobiographies are descriptive of the two men\u2019s bodies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,679],"class_list":["post-5521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-danny-kahneman","tag-nypl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521","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=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}