FightMediocrity on the notion of antifragility in this animated short.
Category: Videos
Video: Fat Tails
As the keynote speaker for the 2015 Fletcher Political Risk Conference, Nassim spoke about Fat Tails.
Video: Intuition — Marvels and Flaws
Nassim joins psychologist Daniel Kahneman and journalist Gillian Tett in discussing intuition and instincts and their consequences in decision-making.
How Increasing Benefits Increases the Risk of Ruin
Thanks to QuantLabs.net for the link.
Nassim At the Jaipur Literary Festival
Nassim, introduced by Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan, gives a talk called “Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” at the Jaipur Literary Festival.
[VIDEO] NYU Development Research Institute’s 2014 Conference | Nassim Taleb: Small is Beautiful – but Also Less Fragile
We use fragility theory to show the effect of size and response to uncertainty, how distributed decision-making creates more apparent volatility, but ensures long term survival of a system. Simply, economies of scale are more than offset by stochastic diseconomies from shocks and there is such a thing as a “sweet spot” in optimal size. We show how city-states fare better than large states, how mice and small species are more robust than elephants, and how the canton mechanism can potentially solve Near Eastern problems.
This talk was part of “Cities and Development: Urban Determinants of Success” — the NYU Development Research Institute’s 2014 Conference, hosted jointly with the Marron Institute of Urban Management. The conference touched on the role of cities in the development process.
[VIDEO] Diplomatic Debate Between Taleb and Sornette on Approaches to Risk & Predictability
Originally published May 24th 2014
Sornette vs. Taleb Diametrically Opposite Approaches to Risk & Predictability
[VIDEO] How Increasing Benefits Increases the Risk of Ruin
Quickly recorded. You do not decrease tail risk by increasing benefits, you decrease tail risk by decreasing tail risk.
[VIDEO] Nassim Taleb discusses uncertainty; more technical than his other talks (Perimeter Institute; 2009)
Taleb Addresses the N=1 Fallacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92uG9R6LzuY
Taleb discusses the N=1 Fallacy as part of a series of talks honoring Seth Roberts.