Hierarchy of distributions in term of fat-tailedness (PDF): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/fattailedness.pdf
Fat Tails and (Anti)fragility: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/FatTails.html
We made huge gains in cancer research when 1) we had no understanding of the biological process, 2) research was undirected (nonteleological), as we were looking for cures for something other than cancer, or stumbled on results we weren’t looking for. Chemo was born from mustard gas, etc.
Now since we’ve started targeting cancer in 1973, the results are … Could be that we had gotten the low hanging fruits; could be that modern life is cancer-causing… an alternative explanation that is even more scary.
My point is that knowledge, direction, aiming, strategic planning
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Nassim Taleb has recently done an interview in the Financial Times Magazine:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 53, is distinguished professor of risk engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. Following a career in finance, he is now the best-selling author of books that include The Black Swan and Antifragile .
☞ Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider writes about Musician Brian Eno’s recent letter to Nassim in A Glam Rocker’s Letter To Nassim Taleb On The Lessons Of Fukushima Is The Smartest Thing You Will Read All Day. The Long Now Foundation Blogs about it also.
☞ Matthew Boesler on Nassim’s recent Twitter exchanges with Karl Whelan. Also see Karl Whelan at Forbes weighs in.
☞ letterstoayoungadvocate.com posts about a recent exchange with Nassim in the Q&A at his talk at Concordia University:
“In his book Antifragile, he writes about how one of his characters, Nero Tulip (who
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Nassim has just posted to his Facebook page a chain letter from the musician Brian Eno about the future…
The musician Brian Eno sent me a very, very powerful public chain letter, and I have to draft an answer to another person. His concern is, of course, about the future. Let us discuss. There is plenty of time as I do not plan to write anything for a few weeks, as I am on the other end of the barbell, doing math (& aphorisms).
The Artangel Longplayer Letters: 1
From: Brian Eno, London
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Here is the video from the Nassim Taleb Stanford Entrepreneurial Lecture Series posted earlier in audio format.
In this seminar, entrepreneurial leaders share lessons from real-world experiences across entrepreneurial settings. Speakers include entrepreneurs, leaders from global technology companies, venture capitalists, and best-selling authors. Half-hour talks are followed by a half hour of class interaction. Learn More: http://stanford.io/V5YQ0b
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” http://concordia.ca/now
Friends, presenting Book IV of Antifragile at Stanford, 4:30, Open to the Public. Focus on Optionality/Convexity, or why you’d rather be antifragile and dumb than robust and educated & why they built cathedrals without knowledge of Euclidian geometry….
http://stvp.stanford.edu/blog/?page_id=1277
(Friends of the area I apologize for not connecting as I am in-and-out.)