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Black Swan Ideas: Mediocristan, Extremistan, and Randomness

May 31st, 2009 · Comments Off on Black Swan Ideas: Mediocristan, Extremistan, and Randomness

There’s a good reason why The Black Swan is a best seller. It’s written in a very lively style with great narratives, literary images, and vivid terms and phrases. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT) talks about scalability, non-scalability, Extremistan, Mediocristan, the fallacy of silent evidence, confirmation error or platonic confirmation, epistemic arrogance, future blindness, the lottery-ticket […]

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