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The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought

submitted by fissionchips

1 decade 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago

"Skeptical empiricist Nassim Taleb, author of "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable", has bracing things to say about the future. It is inevitable that we will be massively blindsided by events, because our understanding is misled by an array of beguiling illusions about reality. Some lessons: Events are not predictable, but consequences are, so focus on preparedness. Pay attention to elders, because they've experienced more Black Swans."

Via ForaTV, via Whole Earth Films, via The Long Now Foundation.

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fissionchips

Loosely related, I just listened to this interesting radio show on Risk Society by sociologist Ulrich Beck.

Moving this video to fissionchips's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan, forecasting' to 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Black Swan, forecasting, statistics, markets, uncertainty, 00s' - edited by Eklek

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Adding video to channels (Philosophy) - requested by Eklek.

fissionchips

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Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter fissionchips.

As people grow old and lose their competitive edge, they tend to emphasize the importance of listening to your elders

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This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

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