How to look at the risks of Covid vaccines, why they are much lower than you think. We never had a larger monitored sample size in history and it allows events that on average show up later to manifest themselves very early on. Rationale: It takes a long time in a casino for someone to win 8 times in a row. But if 8 billion people played at the same time you would certainly witness a minimum of such events every day.
Tag: Pandemic
[YouTube] On Warnings over Systemic Risks from Global Pandemics
Nassim Taleb, Universa Investment’s scientific advisor and distinguished professor of risk engineering at NYU, warned of an acute virus spreading throughout the planet in his 2007 book “The Black Swan.” In January, he also warned of the systemic risks of the coronavirus pandemic. He joins “Squawk Box” to discuss.
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The only man who has a clue about the Coronavirus Pandemic
Link to original article – Taleb: The Only Man Who Has A Clue
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[Video] Bloomberg – The Corona Crisis is Not a Black Swan
- The Corona crisis is not a Black Swan
- Taxpayers are subsidizing companies who failed to have the right precautionary buffers.
- If your portfolio doesn’t have a (well designed) tail hedge, it’s not a portfolio
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[The Guardian] The UK’s coronavirus policy may sound scientific. It isn’t
Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Yaneer Bar-Yam
When, along with applied systems scientist Dr Joe Norman, we first reacted to coronavirus on 25 January with the publication of an academic note urging caution, the virus had reportedly infected fewer than 2,000 people worldwide and fewer than 60 people were dead. That number need not have been so high.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/25/…cummings
[Medium] Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You
The U.S. government is enacting measures to save the airlines, Boeing, and similarly affected corporations. While we clearly insist that these companies must be saved, there may be ethical, economic, and structural problems associated with the details of the execution. As a matter of fact, if you study the history of bailouts, there will be.
Link: https://medium.com/incerto/corporate-socialism-the…3b31a67bff4a
Uncertainty, Certainty and what to do when there is Systemic Risk
Third conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Yaneer Bar-Yam about uncertainty, certainty and what to do when there is a systemic risk; what not to do when a truck is headed your way. How acting early would have cost less? They also discuss:
- John Ioannidis recent post “we are making decisions without reliable data”
- Why we should make decisions without reliable data & use precautionary principles
- How the costs would be so much smaller if we would have acted earlier.
Jan 26 Coronavirus Paper (PDF) – Joseph Norman, Yaneer Bar-Yam, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Systemic risk of pandemic via novel pathogens – Coronavirus: A note, New England Complex Systems Institute (January 26, 2020).
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How long will the Coronavirus shutdown take?
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BBC Radio 4: Nassim on why the Coronavirus Pandemic is not a Black Swan
*Footnote: by antibiotic-resistant he meant “antibiotic-resistant bacterium”.
Ethics of Precaution: Individual and Systemic Risk
Ethics of Precaution: Individual and Systemic Risk
Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Joseph Norman
New England Complex Systems Institute, School of Engineering, New York University
PDF Download Link: academia.edu/42223846…
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