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003/.54 22 Q375.T35 2007 Preceded by Followed by The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a book by the essayist, scholar, philosopher, and statistician was released April 17, 2007. The book focuses on the extreme impact of certain kinds of rare and unpredictable events and humans' tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events retrospectively. This theory has since become known as the.

The book also covers subjects relating to knowledge, and ways of life, and uses elements of fiction in making its points. The author frequently shares anecdotes from his own life to elaborate his theories. The book's first edition appeared in 2007 and was a commercial success. It spent 36 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.

The second, expanded edition appeared in 2010. The book is part of Taleb's four volume philosophical essay on uncertainty, titled the Incerto and covers the following books: (2012), The Black Swan (2007–2010), (2001) and (2010–2016).

Contents. Overview: Black Swan theory Taleb, bestselling author of, treats and as a single idea. See for Taleb's definition of a Black Swan event. Coping with Black Swan events The main idea in Taleb's book is not to attempt to predict Black Swan events, but to build to negative ones that occur and to be able to exploit positive ones. Taleb contends that banks and trading firms are very vulnerable to hazardous Black Swan events and are exposed to losses beyond those that are predicted by their defective financial models. The book's position is a 'Black Swan' event depends on the observer—using the example, what may be a Black Swan surprise for a turkey is not a Black Swan surprise for its butcher—hence the objective should be to 'avoid being the turkey', by identifying areas of vulnerability in order to 'turn the Black Swans white'.

Summary Taleb refers to the book variously as an essay or a narrative with one single idea: 'our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly large deviations.' It is Taleb's questioning of why this occurs, and his explanations of it that drive the book forward. The book's layout follows 'a simple logic', moving from literary subjects in the beginning to scientific and mathematical subjects in the later portions. Part One and the beginning of Part Two delve into. Taleb addresses science and business in the latter half of Part Two and Part Three. Part Four contains advice on how to approach the world in the face of uncertainty and still enjoy life.

Taleb acknowledges a contradiction in the book. He uses an exact metaphor, to argue against the 'unknown, the abstract, and imprecise uncertain—white ravens, pink elephants, or evaporating denizens of a remote planet orbiting Tau Ceti.' There is a contradiction; this book is a story, and I prefer to use stories and vignettes to illustrate our gullibility about stories and our preference for the dangerous compression of narratives.

You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. Part one: Umberto Eco's anti-library, or how we seek validation In the first chapter, the Black Swan theory is first discussed in relation to Taleb's coming of age in the. The author then elucidates his approach to historical analysis. He describes history as opaque, essentially a of cause and effect. One sees events go in and events go out, but one has no way of determining which produced what effect.

Taleb argues this is due to The Triplet of Opacity. In the second chapter, Taleb discusses a neuroscientist named Yevgenia Nikolayevna Krasnova and her book A Story of Recursion. She published her book on the web and was discovered by a small publishing company; they published her unedited work and the book became an international bestseller. The small publishing firm became a big corporation, and Yevgenia became famous. This incident is described as a Black Swan event. Taleb goes on to admit that the so-called author is a work of fiction. Yevgenia rejects the distinction between fiction and nonfiction.

She also hates the very idea of forcing things into well defined 'categories', holding that the world generally is complex and not easy to define. Though female, the character is based, in part, autobiographically on the author (according to Taleb), who has many of the same traits. In the third chapter, Taleb introduces the concepts of Extremistan and Mediocristan. He uses them as guides to define how predictable the environment one's studying is. Mediocristan environments safely can use. In Extremistan environments, a Gaussian distribution should be used at one's own peril. Chapter four brings together the topics discussed earlier, into a narrative about a turkey.

Taleb uses it to illustrate the philosophical problem of and how past performance is no indicator of future performance. He then takes the reader into the history of. In chapter nine, Taleb outlines the multiple topics he previously has described and connects them as a single basic idea. Part Two: We just can't predict In chapter thirteen, Taleb discusses what can be done regarding epistemic arrogance.

He recommends avoiding unnecessary dependence on large-scale harmful predictions, while being less cautious with smaller matters, such as going to a picnic. He makes a distinction between the American cultural perception of failure versus European and Asian stigma and embarrassment regarding failure: the latter is more tolerable for people taking small risks. He also describes the ' for investment he used as a trader, which consists in avoiding medium risk investments and putting 85–90% of money in the safest instruments available and the remaining 10–15% on extremely bets. Arguments The term black swan was a Latin expression: it's oldest reference is in the poet 's expression that 'a good person is as rare as a black swan' ('rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno', 6.165). It was a common expression in 16th century London, as a statement that describes impossibility, deriving from the old world presumption that 'all must be white', because all historical records of swans reported that they had white feathers. Thus, the black swan is an oft cited reference in philosophical discussions of the improbable.

Aristotle's 'Prior Analytics' is the most likely original reference that makes use of example syllogisms involving the predicates 'white', 'black', and 'swan.' More specifically, Aristotle uses the white swan as an example of necessary relations and the black swan as improbable. This example may be used to demonstrate either deductive or inductive reasoning; however, neither form of reasoning is infallible, since in inductive reasoning, premises of an argument may support a conclusion, but does not ensure it, and similarly, in deductive reasoning, an argument is dependent on the truth of its premises.

That is, a may lead to a false result and inconclusive premises also will yield an inconclusive conclusion. The limits of the argument behind 'all swans are white' is exposed—it merely is based on the limits of experience (e.g., that every swan one has seen, heard, or read about is white). The point of this metaphor is that all known swans were white until the discovery of in Australia.

's attack against induction and causation is based primarily on the limits of everyday experience and so too, the limitations of scientific knowledge. Higher frequency Rare and improbable events do occur much more than we dare to think. Our thinking usually is limited in scope and we make assumptions based on what we see and know.

Reality, however, is much more complicated and unpredictable than we think. Also, assumptions relevant to average situations are less relevant to irregular situations, especially when the 'rules of the game' themselves change. The huge effect Extreme events do happen and have a great effect. The effects of extreme events are even higher, due to the fact that they are unexpected. Examples given by Taleb are the, the rise of the Internet and particularly, and.

The results of these were hardly thought of before, but were tremendous. Limits of human knowledge Taleb's black swan is different from the earlier philosophical versions of the problem, specifically in, as it concerns a phenomenon with specific empirical and statistical properties, which he calls 'the fourth quadrant'. Taleb's problem is about epistemic limitations in some parts of the areas covered in decision making. These limitations are twofold: philosophical (mathematical) and empirical (human known epistemic biases). The philosophical problem is about the decrease in knowledge when it comes to rare events, as these are not visible in past samples and therefore require a strong, or an extrapolating theory; accordingly, predictions of events depend more and more on theories when their probability is small. In the fourth quadrant, knowledge is both uncertain and consequences are large, requiring more robustness.

Before Talebthose who dealt with the notion of the improbable, such as, and focused on the in, specifically, that of drawing general conclusions from specific observations. Taleb's Black Swan Event has a central and unique attribute, high impact. His claim is that almost all consequential events in history come from the unexpected—yet humans later convince themselves that these events are explainable in (bias).

Humans are often caught off guard by or slow to recognize the rare and novel, partly because built into the very nature of our experience is the propensity to extend existing knowledge and experience to future events and experiences. To exacerbate this natural propensity, much of our cultural education, both formal and otherwise, is built upon historical knowledge forced on us by others. Of course, both the natural physiological propensity and the cultural phenomenon, are a somewhat necessary precondition to learning, since complete openness to every event would be inefficient.

Observed, 'An open mind is an empty mind.' So we cannot be completely open, but we must guard against being completely closed as well. It would be most efficacious if we could find a balance between the known and unknown and the limits of our knowledge and experience. The effect of unexpected events is likely integral to finding this balance. Thus, the rare and unexpected is far more significant to our formation of knowledge than people often imagine.

Taleb argues that the proposition 'we know', in many cases, is an illusion, albeit a necessary one; the human mind tends to think it knows, but it does not always have a solid basis for this delusion of 'I know'. This notion, that we do not know is very old, dated at least as far back as.

The Socratic method of questioning and avowal of ignorance, is the type of corrective action to the delusion that we know something completely and truly. Similarly, to those who might argue that the advancement of science has rendered the world well-known, Taleb argues that while science added knowledge, we always run the risk of experiencing the improbable, rare, and novel. We can be shocked by this knowledge and experience or we can be open to it.

As with the dictum of Socrates, 'the only thing I know is that I do not know', which is as true as ever, Taleb concludes. Taleb further expands this idea of finite knowable worlds (e.g., a game) vs. Infinite and thus unknowable worlds (our natural world) in what he calls the. Not all experts deserve the title Taleb also questions the authority of some, asserting that the behind science is limited to certain areas and methods. In many areas, having an academic degree and presenting oneself as a scientist is irrelevant. Indeed, authority can stifle empirical experience which, so many times, has proven to have a sounder basis for accuracy. The narrative fallacy Another issue is the 'narrative fallacy' which refers to our tendency to construct stories around facts, in which love for example may serve a purpose, but when someone begins to believe the stories and accommodate facts into the stories, they are likely to err.

The historian Professor discusses this phenomenon in his writings. Praise and criticism Style Taleb's writing style is essayistic, mixing illustrative anecdotes and personal details with points of argument.

Taleb describes his books as 'expressed in the form of a personal essay with autobiographical sections, stories, parables, and philosophical, historical, and scientific discussions', while leaving the technical material to a separate text. This is similar to. This style has not gratified everyone. Mathematics professor David Aldous argued that 'Taleb is sensible (going on prescient) in his discussion of financial markets and in some of his general philosophical thought, but tends toward irrelevance or ridiculous exaggeration otherwise.' Wrote a critical review of The Black Swan in the to which Taleb replied with a list of logical errors, blaming Easterbrook for not having read the book., writing for The Guardian in 2007, described the book as insightful, but facetiously written, saying that Nassim's 'dumbed-down' style was a central problem, especially in comparison to Taleb's Fooled by Randomness.

Praise The Nobel Prize–winning psychologist wrote ' The Black Swan changed my view of how the world works' and explains the influence in his 2011 book. Sales Since being published in 2007, as of February 2011 it has sold close to three million copies. It spent 36 weeks on the; 17 as hardcover and 19 weeks as paperback.

It was published in 32 languages. See also. Notes. March 27, 2008. Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (15 November 2016).

Random House Trade Paperbacks. Retrieved 5 November 2017 – via Amazon. PROLOGUE p.xxviii. PROLOGUE p.xxvii, Taleb call this human tendency the narrative fallacy: we seem to enjoy stories, and we seem to want to remember stories for their own sake. PROLOGUE p8. 'The Origin of Etruscan tusna ('Swan')'. The American Journal of Philology.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Born 1960 (age 57–58), Lebanon Residence United States, United Kingdom, and Lebanon Nationality and Alma mater (BS, MS) (PhD) Known for Applied epistemology, Website Scientific career Fields, risk, probability Institutions (current May 2015), The Microstructure of Dynamic Hedging (1998) Influences, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (: نسيم نقولا طالب‎, alternatively Nessim or Nissim, born 1960) is a, scholar, former, and, whose work focuses on problems of, and. His 2007 book was described in a review by as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II. Taleb is an author and has been a professor at several universities, serving as Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at the since September 2008. He has been co-editor in chief of the academic journal Risk and Decision Analysis since September 2014.

He has also been a practitioner of, a manager, and a, and is currently listed as a scientific adviser. He criticized the risk management methods used by the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subsequently profiting from the. He advocates what he calls a 'black swan robust' society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events. He proposes in systems, that is, an ability to benefit and grow from a certain class of random events, errors, and volatility as well as 'convex tinkering' as a method of scientific discovery, by which he means that decentralized experimentation outperforms directed research. Taleb in his student days Taleb was born in, to Minerva Ghosn and Nagib Taleb, a physician/ and a researcher in.

His parents were of, holding. Taleb attended a French school there, the in Beirut. His family saw its political prominence and wealth reduced by the, which began in 1975.

Education Taleb received his bachelor and master of science degrees from the. He holds an from the at the (1983), and a PhD in from the (1998), under the direction of. His dissertation focused on the mathematics of derivatives pricing.

Finance view Taleb has been a practitioner of, a manager, and a. He is a scientific adviser. Taleb considers himself less a businessman than an of, and says that he used trading to attain independence and freedom from authority. He was a pioneer of (now sometimes called 'black swan protection'), which is intended to mitigate investors' exposure to extreme market moves. His business model has been to safeguard investors against crises while reaping rewards from rare events, and thus his investment management career has included several jackpots followed by lengthy dry spells. He has also held the following positions: managing director and proprietary trader at Credit Suisse, worldwide chief proprietary arbitrage derivatives for, and non-dollar fixed income at, chief currency derivatives trader for, managing director and worldwide head of financial at, derivatives arbitrage trader at (now ), proprietary trader at, independent option market maker on the and founder of.

Taleb reportedly became after the crash of 1987 and was successful during the dive in 2000 as well as the, a development which he attributed to the mismatch between statistical distributions used in finance and reality. Following this crisis, Taleb became an activist for what he called a 'black swan robust society'. Since 2007 he has been a Principal/Senior Scientific Adviser at in Santa Monica, California, a fund which is based on the 'black swan' idea, owned and managed by former Empirica partner. Some of its separate funds made returns of 65% to 115% in October 2008. In a 2007 article, Taleb claimed he retired from trading in 2004, and became a full-time author. However, he describes the nature of his involvement as 'totally passive' from 2010 on.

Academic career Taleb changed careers and became a mathematical researcher, scholar and philosophical essayist in 2006, and has held positions at NYU's, at, at, and. He has been Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at, since 2008.

He was Distinguished Research Scholar at the BT Center, (2009-2013). He is co-Editor in Chief of the academic journal, Risk and Decision Analysis (since September 2014), jointly teaches regular courses with in London (19th time, March 2015), and occasionally participates in teaching courses toward the. He is also co-faculty at the. In late 2015 Nassim, along with and, formed the Real World Risk Institute “to build the principles and methodology for what we call real-world rigor, in decision making and codify a clear-cut way to approach to provide executive education courses and issue two certificates.” Writing career Taleb's four volume philosophical essay on uncertainty, titled the Incerto, covers the following books: Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007–2010), The Bed of Procrustes (2010), and Antifragile (2012). His first non-technical book, about the underestimation of the role of randomness in life, published in 2001, was selected by as one of the smartest 75 books known. His second non-technical book, about unpredictable events, was published in 2007, selling close to 3 million copies (as of February 2011).

It spent 36 weeks on the, 17 as hardcover and 19 weeks as paperback, and was translated into 31 languages. The book has been credited with predicting the banking and economic crisis of 2008. A book of aphorisms, was released in December 2010. The fourth book of his Incerto series— —was published in November 2012. Taleb's non-technical writing style has been described as mixing a narrative, often semi-autobiographical style with short philosophical tales and historical and scientific commentary.

The sales of Taleb's first two books garnered an advance of $4 million, for a follow-up book on anti-fragility. Ideas and theories Taleb's book summarizes the central problem: 'we humans, facing limits of knowledge, and things we do not observe, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas'. Taleb disagrees with (i.e., theoretical) approaches to reality to the extent that they lead people to have the wrong of reality, rather than no map at all. He opposes most economic and grand social science theorizing, which in his view, suffer acutely from the problem of overuse of Plato's Theory of Forms. Based on these and other constructions, he advocates for what he calls a 'black swan robust' society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events.

He has also proposed that biological, economic, and other systems exhibit an ability to benefit and grow from volatility—including particular types of random errors and events—a characteristic of these systems that he terms. Relatedly, he also believes that universities are better at public relations and claiming credit than generating knowledge. He argues that knowledge and technology are usually generated by what he calls 'stochastic tinkering' rather than by top-down directed research,: 182 and has proposed option-like experimentation as a way to outperform directed research as a method of scientific discovery, an approach he terms convex tinkering.: 181 ff, 213 ff, 236 ff Taleb has called for cancellation of the, saying that the damage from economic theories can be devastating. He opposes top-down knowledge as an academic illusion and believes that price formation obeys an process. Together with, Taleb asserts that option pricing is determined in a 'heuristic way' by operators, not by a model, and that models are 'lecturing birds on how to fly'.

Teacher and author Pablo Triana has explored this topic with reference to Haug and Taleb, and says that perhaps Taleb is correct to urge that banks be treated as forbidden to take potentially lethal risks, while hedge funds and other unregulated entities should be able to do what they want. Taleb's writings discuss the error of comparing real-world randomness with the 'structured randomness' in where probabilities are remarkably computable and games of chance like casinos where probabilities are artificially built. Taleb calls this the '. His argument centers on the idea that predictive models are based on Plato's Theory of Forms, gravitating towards mathematical purity and failing to take some key ideas into account, such as: the impossibility of possessing all relevant information, that small unknown variations in the data can have a huge impact, and flawed theories/models that are based on empirical data and that fail to consider events that have not taken place, but could have taken place. Discussing the Ludic fallacy in The Black Swan, he writes, 'The dark side of the moon is harder to see; beaming light on it costs energy.

In the same way, beaming light on the unseen is costly, in both computational and mental effort.' In the second edition of The Black Swan, he posited that the foundations of are faulty and highly self-referential. He states that statistics is fundamentally incomplete as a field, as it cannot predict the risk of rare events, a problem that is acute in proportion to the rarity of these events. With the mathematician, he called the problem statistical undecidability (Douady and Taleb, 2010). Taleb sees his main challenge as mapping his ideas of 'robustification' and ', that is, how to live and act in a world we do not understand and build robustness to black swan events. Taleb introduced the idea of the 'fourth quadrant' in the exposure domain. One of its applications is in his definition of the most effective (that is, least fragile) risk management approach: what he calls the 'barbell' strategy which is based on avoiding the middle in favor of linear combination of extremes, across all domains from politics to economics to one's personal life.

These are deemed by Taleb to be more robust to estimation errors. For instance, he suggests that investing money in 'medium risk' investments is pointless, because risk is difficult, if not impossible to compute. His preferred strategy is to be both hyper-conservative and hyper-aggressive at the same time. For example, an investor might put 80 to 90% of their money in extremely safe instruments, such as treasury bills, with the remainder going into highly risky and diversified speculative bets. An alternative suggestion is to engage in highly speculative bets with a limited downside.

Taleb asserts that by adopting these strategies a portfolio can be 'robust', that is, gain a positive exposure to black swan events while limiting losses suffered by such random events. Together with and, he modeled the 'maximum entropy barbell' which consists in 'to constrain only what can be constrained (in a robust manner) and to maximize entropy elsewhere', based on an insight by E.T. Jaynes that economic life increases in entropy under regulatory and other constraints. Taleb also applies a similar barbell-style approach to health and exercise. Instead of doing steady and moderate exercise daily, he suggests that it is better to do a low-effort exercise such as walking slowly most of the time, while occasionally expending extreme effort.

He claims that the human body evolved to live in a random environment, with various unexpected but intense efforts and much rest. Besides his work on finance and probability, Taleb touches upon many current issues such as employment, the state of academia, and the Syrian War. He appeared as a special guest on The Ron Paul Liberty Report on May 19, 2017 and stated his support for a foreign policy.

Praise and criticism In a 2008 article in The Times, the journalist described Taleb as 'now the hottest thinker in the world'. The Laureate proposed the inclusion of Taleb's name among the world's top intellectuals, saying 'Taleb has changed the way many people think about uncertainty, particularly in the financial markets. His book, The Black Swan, is an original and audacious analysis of the ways in which humans try to make sense of unexpected events.' Taleb was treated as a 'rock star' at the annual meeting in in 2009; at that event he had harsh words for bankers, suggesting that 'it is time for some punishment'.

Taleb contends that statisticians can be when it comes to risks of rare events and risks of blowups, and mask their incompetence with complicated equations. This stance has attracted criticism: the devoted the August 2007 issue of The American Statistician to The Black Swan.

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The magazine offered a mixture of praise and criticism for Taleb's main points, with a focus on Taleb's writing style and his representation of the statistical literature. Robert Lund, a mathematics professor at, writes that in Black Swan, Taleb is 'reckless at times and subject to grandiose overstatements; the professional statistician will find the book ubiquitously naive.' , an author, and finance professor at and Universities, said that 'the book reads as if Taleb has never heard of, visualization tools or.' Nonetheless, he calls the book 'essential reading' and urges statisticians to overlook the insults to get the 'important philosophic and mathematical truths.' Taleb replied in the second edition of The Black Swan that 'One of the most common (but useless) comments I hear is that some solutions can come from 'robust statistics.' I wonder how using these techniques can create information where there is none'.

While praising the book, Westfall and Hilbe in 2007 complained that Taleb's criticism is 'often unfounded and sometimes outrageous.' Taleb, writes, 'describes writers and professionals as knaves or fools, mostly fools. His writing is full of irrelevances, asides and colloquialisms, reading like the conversation of a raconteur rather than a tightly argued thesis. But it is hugely enjoyable – compelling but easy to dip into.

Yet beneath his rage and mockery are serious issues. The risk management models in use today exclude the very events against which they claim to protect the businesses that employ them. These models import a veneer of technical sophistication. Quantitative analysts have lulled corporate executives and regulators into an illusory sense of security.' Berkeley statistician said that efforts by statisticians to refute Taleb's stance have been unconvincing. Taleb and Nobel laureate have traded personal attacks, particularly after Taleb's paper with on why nobody used the.

Taleb said that Scholes was responsible for the financial crises of 2008, and suggested that 'this guy should be in a retirement home doing Sudoku. His funds have blown up twice. He shouldn't be allowed in Washington to lecture anyone on risk.'

Scholes retorted that Taleb simply 'popularises ideas and is making money selling books'. Scholes claimed that Taleb does not cite previous literature, and for this reason Taleb is not taken seriously in academia. Haug and Taleb (2011) listed hundreds of research documents showing the Black–Scholes formula was not Scholes' at all, and argued that the economics establishment ignored literature by practitioners and mathematicians (such as ), who had developed a more sophisticated version of the formula. In an interview on, Taleb said that he was pleased that none of the criticism he received for The Black Swan had any substance, as it was either unintelligent, ad hominem, or style over substance, which convinced him to 'go for the jugular' with a huge financial bet on the breakdown of statistical methods in finance.

Taleb's aggressive and clearly directed commentary against parts of the finance industry—e.g., stating at Davos in 2009 that he was 'happy' that collapsed—has led to reports of personal attacks and possible threats. Other Taleb received an doctorate from the in 2016 and also gave a commencement address to the graduating class in which, describing his life, he stated: I hesitate to give advice because every major single piece of advice I was given turned out to be wrong and I am glad I didn’t follow them. I was told to focus and I never did. I was told to never procrastinate and I waited 20 years for the Black Swan and it sold 3 million copies.

I was told to avoid putting fictional characters in my books and I did put in Nero Tulip and Fat Tony because I got bored otherwise. I was told to not insult the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the more I insulted them the nicer they were to me and solicit Op-Eds. I was told to avoid lifting weights for a back pain and became a weightlifter: never had a back problem since. If I had to relive my life I would be even more stubborn and uncompromising than I have been. One should never do anything without skin in the game.

If you give advice, you need to be exposed to losses from it. Major works Books Incerto.

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