Nassim Taleb kicks off the spring quarter entrepreneurial thought leaders seminar at Stanford with this April April 10, 2013 lecture that corresponds to Book 4 of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (innovation as optionality). Taleb is the author of Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and, most recently, Antifragile. His works focuses on decision [...]
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“I am not saying here that there is no information in big data. There is plenty of information. The problem — the central issue — is that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.” Nassim Taleb offers another way to look at big data We’re more fooled by noise than ever before, and it’s [...]
Nassim Taleb offers: The more someone identifies with a profession or an “accomplishment” such as an award, the less human he will be (in the classical sense). In virtue ethics, the only “excellence” worth attaining is that of “being human”, with all what it entails (honor, courage, service, satisfaction of public & private duties, willingness [...]
“Even if you don’t completely buy (Nassim’s) argument, it will lead you to questions.” Daniel Kahneman Listen to the entire conversation between Nassim Taleb & Daniel Kahneman at the New York Public Library (mp3). Why do people have such a hard time computing probabilities? Well you know, there is a cognitive difficulty in thinking about [...]
We do a certain amount of harm by depriving something organic of a certain amount of variability. Love him or hate him, Nassim Taleb evokes a response. His new book, Antifragile, is currently running thirty-third in the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction list. It was also one of your picks for the top book in [...]
Unfortunately this is not a problem that we can wish away. In a opinion worth reading, philosopher Firmin DeBrabander writes: (in her book The Human Condition, philosopher Hannah Arendt) offers two points that are salient to our thinking about guns: for one, they insert a hierarchy of some kind, but fundamental nonetheless, and thereby undermine [...]
Nassim Taleb writing in an edge.org piece. Something central, very central, is missing in historical accounts of scientific and technological discovery. The discourse and controversies focus on the role of luck as opposed to teleological programs (from telos, “aim”), that is, ones that rely on pre-set direction from formal science. He continues: The luck versus [...]
