fowlertm comments on Luck II: Expecting White Swans - Less Wrong

6 Post author: fowlertm 15 December 2013 05:40PM

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Comment author: fowlertm 17 December 2013 06:16:11AM 1 point [-]

"Isn't it taken directly from Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan"

Right.

"Making white swans indicate rare good events makes no sense."

Actually, you could be right, but that's how I'm using it. I don't have my copies of Taleb's books in front of me, but I'm pretty sure he uses the terms the way I'm using them.

Comment author: hyporational 17 December 2013 06:22:18AM *  1 point [-]

Did you check out the article Lumifer linked to? Perhaps Nassim changed his mind.