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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly ImprobableAnother error is to draw casual conclusions from the absence of nuclear war, since, invoking the Casanova argument of Chapter 8, I would repeat that we would not be here had a nuclear war taken place, and it is not a good idea for us to derive a БЂњcauseБЂ«when our survival is conditioned on that cause. 41 This chapter provides a general conclusion for those who by now say, БЂњTaleb, I get the point, but what should I do?БЂ«My answer is that if you got the point, you are pretty much there. But here is a nudge. 42 Dan Gilbert showed in a famous paper, БЂњHow Mental Systems Believe,БЂ«that we are not natural skeptics and that not believing required an expenditure of mental effort. 43 Make sure that you have plenty of these small bets; avoid being blinded by the vividness of one single Black Swan. Have as many of these small bets as you can conceivably have. Even venture capital firms fall for the narrative fallacy with a few stories that БЂњmake senseБЂ«to them; they do not have as many bets as they should. If venture capital firms are profitable, it is not because of the stories they have in their heads, but because they are exposed to unplanned rare events. 44 There is a finer epistemological point ...» |
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