[Podcast] Episode 102 Probability & Adaptation – HumanCurrent

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HumanCurrent The Complexity Podcast
Episode 102 Probability & Adaptation
An Interview With Gad Saad & Nassim Nicholas Taleb

August 30, 2018

In this episode, Haley and Angie introduce a special conversation between Gad Saad and Nassim Nicholas Taleb at the Ninth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS). Gad Saad is an evolutionary behavioral scientist and Marketing professor at Concordia University and Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a best-selling author, probability researcher and former trader. During their quick and informal conversation, Gad and Nassim share details from their joint presentation at ICCS and share some friendly remarks about each other’s research.

Link: http://www.human-current.com/episode-102-probability…

Nassim’s Favorite Literature Books and Essays

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Why Read Literature?

To someone who tries to understand the world, reading literature might seem like wasted time. Why read something that is not true? Why read something that’s a product of someone’s imagination?

Being a social scientist myself, this question bothered me for a long time. However, once I started exploring some good authors, I quickly realized that reading literature might be more beneficial than reading social science books. That is if you aim to understand the social world and human behavior.

Original Link: Nuggets of Thought Web Archive
Written by: Milovan of Nuggets of Thought

Technical Incerto, Vol 1: The Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails

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From Nassim Taleb’s Facebook Page:

My Technical Incerto Vol1: The Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails is almost done. This is the freely available draft for error correction.

https://www. academia. edu/ 37221402/ TECHNICAL…

Link to Paper: https://www. academia. edu/ 37221402/ TECHNICAL…
Link to Facebook Discussion: https://www. facebook. com/ nntaleb/ posts/ 10156061900203375

Nassim Taleb speaking at RPI Peace and Prosperity 2018: Media & War

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From the website:

The third annual Ron Paul Institute Washington, DC, Peace and Prosperity Conference includes a special focus on the symbiosis between the mainstream media and the warfare state. How does the mainstream media promote war and, conversely, how does the war machine promote the mainstream media? How do the militarist interventionists collude with the mainstream media to prevent alternative media from having a voice? Remember “PropOrNot”? The Atlancic Council? “Hamilton 68”? How does the US government misuse its citizens’ money to propgandize them into supporting endless, winless, pointless wars? To propagandize them into viewing any alternative media questioning the permanent warfare state as “unpatriotic” or even “agents of a foreign power”?

DATE AND TIME
Sat, August 18, 2018
9:30 AM – 3:30 PM EDT

LOCATION
Washington Dulles Airport Marriott
45020 Aviation Drive
Dulles, VA 20166
United States

For tickets go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rpi…

[Podcast] A Celebration of What Works (E26) – Likeville Podcast

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks with us about why scale matters, why localism is better than globalism, why journalists get on his nerves, how intellectual-yet-idiots get us into trouble, why stated beliefs habitually fail to reveal underlying preferences, and much else.

Link iTunes – https:// itunes. apple. com/ ca/ podcast/ likeville/ id1351295016?mt=2

For non-Apple users – https://overcast . fm/ +MApFBBGos

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Nassim Taleb speaking at the 9th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2018)

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From the website: The International Conference on Complex Systems is a unique interdisciplinary forum that unifies and bridges the traditional domains of science and a multitude of real world systems. Participants will contribute and be exposed to mind expanding concepts and methods from across the diverse field of complex systems science.

Conference: July 22-27, 2018
Cambridge, MA, USA

…Link to more details including registration here.

Medium: Pedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scams

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Pedophrasty

Definition: Argument involving children to prop up a rationalization and make the opponent look like an asshole, as people are defenseless and suspend all skepticism in front of suffering children: nobody has the heart to question the authenticity or source of the reporting. Often done with the aid of pictures.

Can also describe the exploitation of babies by professional beggars who rent them from their parents and use them as potent appendage in their trade(remember that children tend to grow and need to be replaced).

Link: https:// medium. com/ incerto/ pedophrasty- bigoteering- and-other- modern- scams- c84bd70a29e8

Medium: What do I mean by Skin in the Game? My Own Version

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What is Skin in the Game? The phrase is often mistaken for one-sided incentives: the promise of a bonus will make someone work harder for you. For the central attribute is symmetry: the balancing of incentives and disincentives, people should also penalized if something for which they are responsible goes wrong and hurts others: he or she who wants a share of the benefits needs to also share some of the risks.

Link: https://medium.com/incerto/what-do-i-mean-by-skin-in-the-game-my-own-version-cc858dc73260