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Wikipedia is not an authority on anything. It will be just as wrong as the misconceptions of whoever wrote the synopsis. The term black swan in this context wa
by mercutio2 6y ago
Wikipedia is not an authority on anything. It will be just as wrong as the misconceptions of whoever wrote the synopsis.
The term black swan in this context was coined by Nassim Taleb; he wrote a book about it, which when fully understood distinguishes predictable but rare from completely unexpected.
That Wikipedia manages to mangle this doesn’t mean the originator of the term suddenly became wrong.