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 Yeah. Not sure if that's just snobbery, but Taleb's much smarter than me, so my reaction is untrustworthy.
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@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? -
@afoolswisdom@KarmaKaiser Not sure what you mean. -
@St_Rev@KarmaKaiser I tried looking up "Mandelbrot's geometrical approach".
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.