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The Stevens Center for Science Writings Presents: Antifragility: How to Protect Ourselves From -and Exploit –Unpredictability

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That’s next Tuesday! In New Jersey. Hope they record it! HatTip to Dave Lull.

DeBaun Auditorium

6 PM

A talk by Nassim Taleb. Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6-7:30. DeBaun Auditorium.

A professor of risk engineering at New York University, Taleb argued in his 2007 blockbuster The Black Swan that unpredictable events, “black swans,” have a much bigger impact on our lives than experts generally acknowledge. Credited by New York Times columnist David Brooks with having foreseen our current global recession, Taleb is visiting Stevens to discuss a work-in-progress, Antifragility, which proposes how we can reduce the threat of black swans–and reap their potential benefits–in the realms of technology, business, medicine and politics.

via The Stevens Center for Science Writings Presents: Antifragility: How to Protect Ourselves From -and Exploit –Unpredictability | Stevens Institute of Technology.

It’s Here! RSA – The Predictability of Unpredictability

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The Predictability of Unpredictability

1st Dec 2011; 18:00

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RSA Keynote

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the brilliant and controversial author of The Black Swan, described in the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War 2. He came to wider public attention as one of the few prominent academics to correctly warn of catastrophe in the financial system ahead of the credit crunch.

Despite his skills as economist and aphorist, it is Taleb’s theory of knowledge which has made him required reading in 10 and 11 Downing Street. By emphasising the inherent uncertainty and complexity of reality he argues against top down planning and research arguing instead for small scale experimentation and observation. Cameron Conservatives quote Taleb in making the case against central state control and planning and in favour of localism and testing by doing.

Join renowned academic and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb as he discusses his groundbreaking ideas and their relevance to the current economic crisis, national policy making and other topics with Rohan Silva, senior policy advisor to the Prime Minister.

Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA.

via RSA – The Predictability of Unpredictability.

Talk by Nassim Nicholas Taleb at Stevens – Technology, Policy, Regulation & Ethics

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THE STEVENS CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY POLICY AND ETHICS AND THE CENTER FOR SCIENCE WRITINGS PRESENT:”ANTIFRAGILITY: Curbing the Harmful Effects of Finance, Technology, Medicine and Government.” A talk by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6-7:30. DeBaun Auditorium.Nassim Nicholas Taleb rocked the worlds of finance and government in 2007 with his runaway bestseller The Black Swan, which The Sunday Times ranked as one of the most influential books since World War II and Harvard historian Niall Ferguson called “idiosyncratically brilliant.” A polymath and professor of risk engineering at New York University, Taleb argued that conventional economics leaves us vulnerable to random, potentially catastrophic events, or “black swans,” that cannot be foreseen based on simple extrapolations from the past. Taleb, who is credited by New York Times columnist David Brooks with having predicted our current global recession, is visiting Stevens to discuss a work-in-progress, Anti-fragility, which lays out measures that can reduce the threat of black swans in the realms of technology, medicine, law and politics as well as finance. For more information  see the CSW website, www.stevens.edu/cal/csw

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HatTip to Dave Lull.

Lillian Reports

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Had a nice email from Lillian who was able to attend NNT’s talk the other night . She gave me permission to quote her…

This is the material used in the NNT presentation last evening at Columbia …The event was plagued with audiovisual gremlins but with good humor and a level of patience he is not supposed to have, all went remarkably well… NNT suggested that the reliability of the technical equipment is inverse to the tuition cost of the university that owns it…

 
Regards

Thanks Lillian!