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

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Comment author: gjm 17 December 2013 06:45:24PM 2 points [-]

That fits well with my admittedly hazy recollection, and suggests that the usage here ("swan" = "unexpected event", "black" = "bad", "white" = "good") is quite different from Taleb's ("swan" = "event", "black" = "out-of-model", "white" = "normal").