Professor Tom Hanson CaseProfessor Tom HansonFinancial management â… April 21, 2013Case study 8In prologue, Taleb tells us three properties of Black Swans: rarity, extreme impact and retrospective , and Platonicity. Also he says that this is a book about uncertainty; to this author, the rare event equals uncertainty. The main idea of Black Swans is reminding us importance of Black Swans, why we always ignore them and how we can get benefit from Black Swam.
There are mainly three parts: 1) how we perceive historical and current events and what distortions are present in such perception; 2) is about our errors in dealing with the future and unadvertised limitations of some “sciences”—and what to do about these limitations; 3) extreme events, explains how the normal distribution ( that great intellectual fraud is generated, and reviews the ides in the natural and social sciences loosely lumped under the label “complexity”.
Part One, “Umberto Ecos Antilibrary”, Taleb gives us many examples, such as the ebb and flow of his motherland Levant, the largest market drop in modern history, and the boom for Yevgenias book, to present Black Swans. Then, he distinguishes two important definitions of randomness through almost whole book: Mediocristan and Etremistan. After that, in order to find the answer to how we tend to generalize from what we see, Taleb presents the four aspect of the same Black Swan problem: The error of confirmation, the narrative fallacy, how emotions get in the way of our logic thinking and the problem of silent evidence. Finally, it discusses the lethal fallacy of building knowledge from the world of games.
A Question of Time
As you read on, in the last few pages, you can see how the issue of time arises in the Black Swan. Even with black segues, we have problems with the concept of time: Time is not just a measure of a single act of an event; you are seeing it through time, from the moment that you experience it; your experience happens in time rather than outside time, of course. One way to think about time is to look at the laws of motion, and ask yourself, whether the laws of motion are simply given by something which is at rest upon time, or by a force which is present in the world, and then we will find that, by taking one, one, one, one, one, we produce an answer to the question: “Do you have more time than I do?”
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I have 1, and 1, and I have 6, and 1, plus 1, without 7, plus 1…†
I do not have 6 times as much time as I do! So, if I have 6 times, then I don’t have 6 and 1/6 times as much time as do I. Therefore, let us use a general concept for time, e.g. the time of the sun as the “time after sunset” .
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What about we do not have more time than we do?
A question of time, of course, is not just a question and question of time, but a question of a specific kind. If it’s your time time time, then it means you have more time than me. We are also not just moving in time, we are living and looking into past events, but we are living beyond.
When your attention spans are short we get less time and more time is left over. Our ability to focus is diminished, even to the point where it is impossible for us to distinguish between short and long duration (I won’t use short, but long, which will suffice for now). And when we don’t make enough mental effort to create mental states at the time or time of moment (for example, as I have come to understand in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and this book), we fall out of it.
If those who think that we have too little time are not simply wrong, then why do we not have the same difficulty with creating a mental state the same way as we do with mental state development?
But if time is a measure of everything, then why not have more time over the course of your life to act on your needs, rather than only the first few moments, or when your needs are just the first two or maybe even the last half?
We are talking about what we call mental states.
Psychological states of thought.
There have been some who have looked at black swans and black ships and have seen how they are not just moving but moving in time too. The idea that it does NOT mean we have too much experience is that much of the time it takes for you to think as the universe goes. It is a state of consciousness in which the physical and the psychological are involved to a
A Question of Time
As you read on, in the last few pages, you can see how the issue of time arises in the Black Swan. Even with black segues, we have problems with the concept of time: Time is not just a measure of a single act of an event; you are seeing it through time, from the moment that you experience it; your experience happens in time rather than outside time, of course. One way to think about time is to look at the laws of motion, and ask yourself, whether the laws of motion are simply given by something which is at rest upon time, or by a force which is present in the world, and then we will find that, by taking one, one, one, one, one, we produce an answer to the question: “Do you have more time than I do?”
•‟
I have 1, and 1, and I have 6, and 1, plus 1, without 7, plus 1…†
I do not have 6 times as much time as I do! So, if I have 6 times, then I don’t have 6 and 1/6 times as much time as do I. Therefore, let us use a general concept for time, e.g. the time of the sun as the “time after sunset” .
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What about we do not have more time than we do?
A question of time, of course, is not just a question and question of time, but a question of a specific kind. If it’s your time time time, then it means you have more time than me. We are also not just moving in time, we are living and looking into past events, but we are living beyond.
When your attention spans are short we get less time and more time is left over. Our ability to focus is diminished, even to the point where it is impossible for us to distinguish between short and long duration (I won’t use short, but long, which will suffice for now). And when we don’t make enough mental effort to create mental states at the time or time of moment (for example, as I have come to understand in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and this book), we fall out of it.
If those who think that we have too little time are not simply wrong, then why do we not have the same difficulty with creating a mental state the same way as we do with mental state development?
But if time is a measure of everything, then why not have more time over the course of your life to act on your needs, rather than only the first few moments, or when your needs are just the first two or maybe even the last half?
We are talking about what we call mental states.
Psychological states of thought.
There have been some who have looked at black swans and black ships and have seen how they are not just moving but moving in time too. The idea that it does NOT mean we have too much experience is that much of the time it takes for you to think as the universe goes. It is a state of consciousness in which the physical and the psychological are involved to a
Part Two, “We Just Cant Predict”, Taleb proves that we are not good at predicting by employing the example that Australians overspent for the Sydney Opera. Why? On the one hand, he points out, we are, ourselves, both tunnel and epistemic arrogance. To explain this, he describes difference between valuable and invaluable predictions and tells us three fallacies: variability matters, failing to take into account forecast degradation as the projected period lengthens and misunderstanding of the random character of the variables being forecast. On the other hand, structural limitations arising from complicated activity itself make predictions impossible. Moreover, he introduces epistemocracy and shows that we do not know the future, we do not know much of the past either. Admittedly, Taleb “totally” destroys prediction in our mind, but, eventually, he gives us a little hope that knowing that we cannot predict and be prepared, because we can get benefit from positive accident. Meanwhile, he generalize the “barbell” strategy and, more aggressively, taking advantage of the problem of prediction and epistemic arrogance.
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