I feel like the insights in The Black Swan can be best expressed trough reggae. "We don't know what we don't know mon!"
@KarmaKaiser You have to understand the math to understand why the math has to be discarded.
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@St_Rev It is like Jazz. First master all the rules. Second, Break them.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev Do the latter before the former and you have a mess. Only do the former and you don't innovate or add anything interesting. -
@KarmaKaiser Requires serious grounding in both pure math and applied epistemology, both of which are separately rare as hell. -
@St_Rev Also I think he regards literary philosophical knowledge as essential to groking it at an intuitive level. -
@KarmaKaiser Yeah. Not sure if that's just snobbery, but Taleb's much smarter than me, so my reaction is untrustworthy. -
@St_Rev I believe the notion that pre moderns grokked these ideas without math to be his central claim as why you should be 'cultured'. -
@KarmaKaiser@St_Rev Yeah. I don't think you actually need math. Certainly not pure math. Only enough for Jensen's inequality. -
@afoolswisdom@KarmaKaiser ...to understand those tools at a fairly sophisticated level, and to understand Mandelbrot's geometrical approach -
@St_Rev@KarmaKaiser Is that the qualitative approach? - 2 more replies
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