One of the most anticipated talks at DLD 2009 brought together essayist and former mathematical trader Nassim Taleb, nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University) and John Brockman, publisher of Edge in Munich. View the complete 1 hour DLD video of the session “Reflections on a crisis” in HD as the greatest living psychologist and the foremost scholar of extreme events discuss hindsight biases, the illusion of patterns, perception of risk, and denial here. Also, you may want to read more on FOCUS Online and edge.org. Thanks to Thomas Praus and Nicole Simon for live-blogging about this session.
January 31, 2009 · 02:55 PM·
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