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Fri Sep 19 03:03:43 UTC 2014 <decimation> in taleb's antifragile, Fat Tony would have said that the chumps wouldn't believe you if you told them
Mon Sep 15 16:01:52 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> ^Unique Option Pricing Measure With Neither Dynamic Hedging nor Complete Markets, by Taleb
Thu Sep 11 04:44:18 UTC 2014 <decimation> asciilifeform: also recommended by taleb. seems reasonable to do what humans have been doing for millennia
Mon Sep 01 02:16:31 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> the way that thing must read is "we, including myself personally, and the institution i work for - the imf - are a collection of contemptioble idiots with wholy unsupported delusions of cultural relevance and scientific rigour. fortunately for the world nassim taleb has been saying this for a long time ; unfortunately for the world we thought we knew better, like any clueless two bit scammer on an infamous web forum"
Mon Sep 01 02:14:38 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> dignork i take the fact that Olivier Blanchard fucktard writes that whole piece without including the string "Taleb" as a personal insult.
Sun Aug 31 04:46:33 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform: (how to know that schwartz (or taleb, or...) collects 'prize' rather than usg stooge with a shannonizer and irc connection - exercise for alert reader.) <<< if you recall something sort-of like that was tried, except this "major prize" approach is flawed as you explain. so, better version was tried :)
Sun Aug 31 02:37:31 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> (how to know that schwartz (or taleb, or...) collects 'prize' rather than usg stooge with a shannonizer and irc connection - exercise for alert reader.)
Fri Aug 29 04:50:34 UTC 2014 <decimation> Taleb would probably say that being cheap is antifragile, the less you spend the lower your risk and the more likely random events will pay off
Fri Aug 29 03:56:10 UTC 2014 <decimation> asciilifeform: Taleb would say that some bit redundancy is probably a good idea
Wed Aug 27 02:07:18 UTC 2014 <decimation> asciilifeform: in this sense cryptography is "fragile" in Taleb's way of thinking - it has a very deep but very tiny "crack"
Mon Aug 25 20:09:20 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> mircea_popescu: decimation so taleb's mistake is that he's being a BANAL asshole ? << he does get a lot of the "o this is nothing new" retort
Mon Aug 25 20:03:30 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> mircea_popescu: taleb << asciilifeform of course, who else?
Mon Aug 25 03:07:14 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> decimation so taleb's mistake is that he's being a BANAL asshole ?
Mon Aug 25 03:04:20 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform cause i was thinking, i prolly do more of it than poor taleb.
Mon Aug 25 02:25:32 UTC 2014 <*> asciilifeform would love to buy a (yes) bowdlerized compendium of taleb, with all the annoying 'i'm the strongest man alive, grasp my throbbing cock!' crapola snipped out.
Mon Aug 25 02:24:14 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> taleb
Sun Aug 24 20:59:29 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> taleb's too distracted by the shenanigans in his homeland
Sun Aug 24 20:59:13 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> decimation: to the extent that bitcoin is short usd, taleb would love it to the extent that he could be bothered to understand it
Sun Aug 24 20:58:01 UTC 2014 <decimation> anti-fragile by taleb has some interesting points. I wonder if he would consider bitcoin "fragile". In one sense, it is fragile because its current implementation relies on fragile computers and somewhat poorly wrought software. In another sense, it is strongly anti-fragile because it benefits from any event that casts doubt on the ability of nation-states to manage their own scrip.
Sat Aug 23 04:17:52 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves: i'm listening to Snow Crash currently, after getting burnt out on Taleb telling everything what it's problem is <<< ahahah good one.