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#050 - Fooled by Randomness: Nassim Taleb (Incerto Series)


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Key Takeaways 
  • People often underestimate the role of chance in their achievements
  • Mild success can be explainable by skill, but wild success is attributable to variance 
  • In the long run, the “lucky” regress to the mean 
  • Understand Power Laws when investing; the wins of a few investments make up for the losses on many investments, and then some 
  • Survivorship Bias: the tendency to focus on successful individuals without considering those who failed due to random factors 
  • The probability of the loss must be judged in connection with the magnitude of the outcome; it is not the likelihood of an event that matters, but the magnitude of the outcome in connection with the likelihood of the event that does  
  • Maximizing the probability of winning does not maximize the expected value from the game 
  • The confidence in which you make your decision is more important than the expected value that comes from that decision 
  • A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point 


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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro / chit-chat
(20:11) Randomness & Luck
(24:46) Monte Carlo Simulation
(31:09) Ergodicity
(31:39) Hindsight Bias
(38:00) Survivorship Bias
(39:50) Asymmetric Bets / John & Nero
(49:53) Skewness & Asymmetry
(57:19) Pascal's Wager
(1:00:53) Induction & Chaos Theory
(1:03:22) Chapter 11
(1:08:45) System-1 vs System-2 Thinking
(1:10:03) Satisficing
(1:20:08) Normative vs Positive Thinking
(1:25:52) Signal vs Noise
(1:28:20) Heuristics
(1:33:45) Final Part of Book (Part 3's Importance)
(1:44:41) Favourite Quotes / Our Lives
(2:06:11) Final Thoughts

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