Showing posts with label Taleb. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Our Favorite Curmudgeon on Uncertainty


Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in an interview with Portfolio today:

"The structure of uncertainty in the world is vastly greater than we think."

Dark matter . . . See post of a few days ago.

(I use "curmudgeon" in a friendly sense, of course. I am a huge fan of his.)