{"id":7999,"date":"2015-08-13T21:53:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T04:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2015-08-13T21:53:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T04:53:38","slug":"lindy-effect-gmos-shills-solar-energy-pope-francis-twitter-nntaleb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/lindy-effect-gmos-shills-solar-energy-pope-francis-twitter-nntaleb\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindy Effect,  GMOs, Shills, Solar Energy, Pope Francis |Twitter @nntaleb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NNT has been VERY busy on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> lately. This is just a sampling from the last few days. Usually but not always, I select Tweets that include links to additional information.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/631789212686094336<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/benhayesnyc\/status\/631547333973516288<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/631475970847940608<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/631469357667893248<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/631226823326633984<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/630857997359648769<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/630767097023471616<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/630758660751421440<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/630748570228908032<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/630380237533151232<\/p>\n<p>ANSWER: Every loss of crop raises total ruin 100 fold. Halving crops raises total ruin by 100 quintillion 10^20 (assuming independence).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 13, 2015<br \/>\n@nntaleb you will like this onion article on GMOs http:\/\/t.co\/1m2TtHFTqG<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Hayes (@benhayesnyc) August 12, 2015<br \/>\nRelgious heuristics have played in role in intergenerational risk management http:\/\/t.co\/FFY7OTbe8c @Streitapfel<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 12, 2015<br \/>\nThe pope is reciting a version of our Precautionary Pple: Pope Francis Joins Battle Against Transgenic Crops http:\/\/t.co\/Z9LsDsZdog<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 12, 2015<br \/>\nAdditional aphorisms added to INCERTO https:\/\/t.co\/NNpAtYK9N5<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 11, 2015<br \/>\nDeep down,thrilled to see political established annihilated by Trump whom I can&#8217;t stand. Prefer stupiddemocracy to fakedemocracy @ianbremmer<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 10, 2015<br \/>\nThe value of solar energy is in the optionality: raw material is free AND doesn&#8217;t change in price, with no of negative optionality (waste).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 10, 2015<br \/>\nA new scholarly article on the fake &#8220;consensus&#8221; on GMOs and the travesty of science by corporate interests. (Gated) http:\/\/t.co\/PqEDT5U3dr<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 10, 2015<br \/>\nWe are witnessing the prostitution of science: Like Monsanto, Coca-Cola Funds Shills to Distort Science. http:\/\/t.co\/U5bMx7mwRF<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 10, 2015<br \/>\nWrong to evaluate a statistical concept (unconditional life expectancy) from (conditional) exceptions. #LindyEffect https:\/\/t.co\/cUQvM72ANx<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 9, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1058,791,788,640,823,765,1061,1059,1060],"class_list":["post-7999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter","tag-coca-cola","tag-gmos","tag-incerto","tag-lindy-effect","tag-monsanto","tag-optionality","tag-pope-francis","tag-shills","tag-solar-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999","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=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8002,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions\/8002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}