http://www.novrain.com/temp/The_Black_Swan.pdf

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Thanks :-) It’s good to be back.

Very interesting, I’m going to email you about that.

Platonicity is our desire and heuristic to put everything in discrete, “ideal” Platonic categories – something that doesn’t exist in reality.

Quixotic Overconfidence is the blindness of (in this case) business people who start companies, thinking that they can be successful. In fact, so Taleb argues, it’s all about luck. And since anybody can be lucky, capitalism enables great equality.

The Three Body Problem is essentially about how fast things get complex the more elements you look at. It’s quite easy to calculate the way of the first and the second ball that is hit in a pool game. But when you calculate the 9th ball that is hit in a row, you have to include the gravitational pull of the person next to the table into your calculations – things get extremely complex very fast.

And I’d very much have explained the other ones, especially the last 3.

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