Nassim Nicholas Taleb: How to Live in a World we Don't Understand
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Published 2013-04-17
The Department of Political Science and Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability present Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a world renowned author and scholar who will discuss his work on uncertainty, randomness, and disorder outlined in his new book: Antifragile. Taleb's works focuses on decision making under uncertainty, as well as technical and philosophical problems with probability and metaprobability, in other words "what to do in a world we don't understand"
All Comments (21)
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31:23 - "At no time in the history of mankind have we had as many people in positions of power with as little downside to themselves".
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He means the Richter scale, not the Geiger Scale, when talking about earthquakes. Geiger is for radiation.
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Always enjoy listening to a man who is intellectual while still having a sense of humor
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He is so disruptively inspiring--and brave. Great talk. Thank you.
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Of course there people equally wise; perhaps even wiser - but good luck finding them or their books! What a mind - and heart!
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The greatness of uncertainty and randomness or disorder rhyme in creative thinking. It is quite interesting to seek meaning from odd phenomenon.
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1 hr 33 min A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good --Samuel Johnson
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This video was filmed in Antarctica during a blizzard, as you can see clearly
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if you read his works and then come to this presentation, this talk is easy to understand but if you dont, then you'll probably think he's insane i love that about him he's doing EXACTLY what he describes in his books, it makes perfect sense and it proves that he eats his own cooking
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Nassim says that we should go to a lot of parties!
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I greatly appreciate mr taleb’s work. We need to personalize the idea of skin in the game. Simply meaning you must be willing to suffer the consequences of your risk and make others equally aware of the risk they may be taking in with you. However in not allowing me Taleb a disproportional part of your value system, regardless of a feeling you understand him completely or possibly incompletely… you must then take on in complete good faith and with a hole hearted intent his self proclaimed nemesis… what we do best is judge peoples commitment to their beliefs… hence the skin in the game they are willing be attacked for. So if they are honestly committed to their work they should not be blown off… now we then must judge how open they really were to scrutiny and differing opinion, how strong they examined differing thoughts and work themselves and how honestly, and/or how valuable their belief system was in their own existence. It may not be about success but value they added by quality of life they enhanced… if they hold up I suspect their work/ideas/existence will live on inside the future… if after looking at the work in contrary to your own beliefs that seem to fail to meet the standards I laid out then likely they will dissolve away as an exercise…
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Around 4:22, the connection to Kahneman's system 1 and system 2 thinking connected two ideas in a remarkable way
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Brilliant
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Great thinker!
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1:30:00 on reading because your are interested in things
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superb
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I am very curious what did he say about smoking at 1:00:00 as the video has ben cut
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52:57 The guy asks "what do you suggest to the people attending your lecture so that they don't get out of the lecture hall ...", and at the same time someone was getting out of the lecture hall :D
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When i hear Nassim i think if he knew about Bernard de Mandeville, wrote The Fable of the bees, they called Man Devil. Some similarities.
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Can someone help me - he said that there are four kinds of life. I can't understand the last kind - 1. Honorable, 2. Comfortable, 3. Long - what is the last one?
