+The Turkey Problem
+ Meeting Mandelbrot & discovering a wealth of processes generating grey swans
+ Meeting Kahneman
+ The 3-day meeting with the Harvard geneticist George Church, involving Elon Musk, Anne Wojcicki, Larry Page, Richard Thaler, & others that triggered the non-naive version of the precautionary principle.
Category: Videos
[YouTube] A Discussion With Scott Patterson’s About His Book Chaos Kings, Part 1
Scott Patterson discusses with Nassim N Taleb his book Chaos Kings, chapter by chapter. This is Part 1.
[YouTube] Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Investment, Hedging, and Mishedging | AIM Summit London 2024
“Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Investment, Hedging, and Mishedging” at AIM Summit London Edition 2024 Speaker Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Author, The Black Swan; Distinguished Scientific Advisor, Universa Investments L.P. Moderator Julia Chatterley – Anchor and Correspondent, CNN International
[YouTube] STEPHEN WOLFRAM VISITS RWRI 19, SUMMER SCHOOL 2024
TOPICS: 2nd law, generative AI, computational Irreducibility, climate modeling. Stephen Wolfram’s discussion with participants at the Real World Risk Institute Summer School 2024, with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Robert Frey, Raphael Douady, and others.
[YouTube] Nassim Taleb on Stocks Over Bonds
CNBC: The Exchange, Nassim Taleb, May 20, 2024

[YouTube] MINI LECTURE 18 (MORE TECHNICAL): How to build a positive definite correlation matrix for Monte Carlo Simulations for a set dimensionality
How to build by tinkering with a positive definite correlation matrix for Monte Carlo simulations for a given dimensionality.
[YouTube] MINI LECTURE 17: Maximum Ignorance Probability (a bit more technical)
What do you do when you must estimate a probability and there is ZERO information? A surgeon did 60 operations with 0 failure. What’s her or his failure rate? I didn’t realize that the trick wasn’t in the literature until John Hughes wrote a paper in Statistics and Probability Letters based on my blog post presenting the idea.
[YouTube] MINI LECTURE 16: On the Absurdity of Standard Genetics Reports
Why reports from genetic firms saying you are 30% Greek, 15% Sicilian, and 5% Martian are complete misrepresentations?
[Twitter] Nassim Taleb’s interview with Tucker Carlson when Skin in the Game came out

with Tucker Carlson when Skin in the Game (SITG) came out: Imagine fewer bureaucrats with no SITG, no CIA, a noninterventionist State Dept… In SITG I said that sending State Dept employees to the beach would be better for America & much better for the world.
YouTube video of the interview
You can get the book (Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life) here: Paperback or Hardcover
[YouTube] How the Social Fabric Works: A Conversation With Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb joined Eric Hacopian of CivilNet for a discussion on science, artificial intelligence, and ongoing societal advancements. Gain valuable insights into the workings of the social fabric in this engaging conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb.