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Taleb is a legend in his own mind.
by queuebert 5y ago
Taleb is a legend in his own mind.
- bsedlm 5y agohe will live on through the notion of "black swan event"
- ben_w 5y agoHe’s far from the only person to spot that idea, though. My favourite take is from a different author: """An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.""" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Prob...