Nassim Nicholas Taleb in an interaction with Ami Shah of ETMarkets.com on the sidelines of Times Network India Economic Conclave talks about what makes him bullish on gold, why he’s still betting on crypto, and why he doesn’t invest in India.
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In a pop-up seminar held at the Lebanese American University New York Academic Center and Headquarters on the 7th of November 2019, Nassim discusses the recent protests happening in Lebanon and the idea of localism being a viable solution for the country.
Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb interviewed about his book Skin in the Game by author and journalist Katrine Marçal. Taleb explains the concepts of Skin in the Game and Soul in the Game. He also talks about rationality and honour. Taleb is not a fan of economists Paul Krugman, Richard Thaler and behavioural economics. In this interview, he explains why.
In this fantastic lecture at the end of August 2019 at the WorldSkills Conference in Kazan, Russia, he addressed some very interesting points:
✅ The importance of trial and error for the development of technology. ✅ Theory does not allow interaction with uncertainty. ✅ Theoretical knowledge is inferior to the knowledge gained from experience. ✅ We get smarter when we perform, not just when we sit and think. ✅ People who use trial-and-error are more successful than those who just dedicate themselves to designing, writing formulas, and reasoning in theory. ✅ Businesses that make small, cheap mistakes can end up making a mistake that will make them big. ✅ People involved in technology do not write books. The books are written by teachers. But the real heroes didn’t come from the academic world, they didn’t have time to discuss what they were doing. ✅ Do not try to teach birds to fly. The world does not develop from top to bottom. ✅ Industrial Revolution and Cybernetics did not come from academia and science but from people without formal study. ✅ Formal education does not generate wealth for countries. ✅ First, they must get rich and only then invest in this type of education (If you care about Brazil!) ✅ South Korea and Switzerland first became rich with the technical skills of their people and later invested in formal education.
When someone tells you it was a 10 sigma event, meaning it is 10 standard deviations and it is Gaussian; unless the information came from God, you can reject the Gaussian distribution for that domain. We show the derivations.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, scientific adviser at Universa Investments, discusses risks facing financial markets, U.S. monetary policy and his concerns about deficits with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)