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To: tyc:> who wrote (68828)	2/14/2010 3:45:57 PM
From: roymario	Read Replies (1) of 78426

Tyc, It is a boring Sunday for me as I am preparing "working papers" for an audited statement and I keep losing interest... I have been reading "The Black Swan" but am only 50 or so pages through it so I really have not formed any strong opinions but: 1. Taleb's view on uncertainty (as I understand it) matches very well my philosophical view of the planet we live on. 2. His writing style is interesting and he likes to challenge the reader. He may very well not worry about "running down anothers viewpoint" by the strength and humour of his own style and the point he is attempting to make. 3. One should be very careful in being non attached to his statements and bringing a good deal of one's own detached discrimination rather than wholesale agreement with him. In a way this is acting on his view of the "1,000th" day. 4. As example of the above #3, for me, so far in the book is that he takes strong exception to Plato and Bacon in their expounded views. His is a 21st century view on men who were expounding "new" theory to less developed intellectual consciousness of the time. If one places these men and their ideas in context of who they were speaking to and considers the limited knowledge humanity was using to make decisions at the time (rather than eg. a current day comparison to the stock market) these men were "giants" of human beings. Their stated views at the time were at least as challenging as Taleb's today (IMO) in the sense of changing crystalized thought patterns of those they were trying to influence. I mean NO to discreditation to Taleb by my statements ( I like the book and his thoughts are valuable), but ,simply, I work to be cautious do not want to be the "turkey" on the 1,000th day (LOL). R.

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