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The article manages to describe tail risk without using the term, and the author avoids mentioning Nasim Taleb, the current leading author/speaker on low probab
by gregjor 6y ago
The article manages to describe tail risk without using the term, and the author avoids mentioning Nasim Taleb, the current leading author/speaker on low probability/high risk events, so-called Black Swans. I suppose Taleb has offended enough people at this point to earn this treatment. Instead Nick Bostrom gets a nod for his sci-fi singularity fantasies.
- rramadass 6y agoAm i the only one who really likes Taleb and his aggressive approach ? :-) I couldn't care less about "Offended feelings" of charlatans, posers and fakes. Given the mess that the so-called "people in charge" have made of everything i wish more academics/intelligentsia were as aggressive as him in calling out mistakes/errors in our patterns of thought and force us to face them.