Episode Synopsis "Black Swan"

Amused by Nassim Taleb’s Black Swan and its take on our blindness to randomness, particularly to large deviations. He says a Black Swan event has 3 characteristics: rarity, extreme impact, retrospective predictability. What is Covid19 pandemic but precisely this.

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