Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Air date: 12-03-01

Added: Aug 7, 2007

Duration: 59:25

Nassim Nicholas Talem PhD is an essayist, belletrist, & researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme & rare events, the "Black Swans" i.e. outliers); but it falls at the intersection of philosophy/epistemology (skepticism; knowledge about the dynamics of history; inferential claims), philosophy/ethics (stoicism facing random events; theories of nonhedonic happiness), mathematical sciences (probability theory, statistical physics), social science/finance (opacity & decision making under incomplete information), and cognitive science (the mental biases making us "fooled" by randomness). He mainly derives his intuitions from a 2-decade long and intense practice of derivatives trading ("nondull" activities with plenty of randomness. Academic & Teaching: Starting September 2007, London Business School (visiting 3 months a year while living mostly in NY) : Professor of ... Marketing (sic!) & co-director of the Decision Science Laboratory (Black Swans are mainly positive "hits"). Dan Goldstein ( also Wiki) and I are starting the "ecological uncertainty" project running a family of experiments on the intuition of randomness. On leave as the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Fellow & Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (since 1999), and affiliated faculty, Wharton School Financial Institutions Center. My most enjoyable teaching experience is the 2 --day seminar I co-teach with Paul Wilmott twice a year. Trading/Finance: Currently Founder, Empirica LLC, which owns interests in hedge funds, and operates a research laboratory in London Empirica Laboratory Limited and a Hedging operation (no, it is not a "hedge fund" in the common accepted sense as the bulk of the business consists in portfolio protection packages. We only called it a HF in May-October 2001). Was inducted in the Derivatives Strategy Derivatives Hall of Fame (Feb 2001). I was mostly a prop trader until 1993, then became more arbitrage oriented. I held positions of managing director and head trader at Union Bank of Switzerland, worldwide chief derivatives trader for currencies, commodities and non-dollar fixed income at CS-First Boston, chief currency derivatives trader for Banque Indosuez (age 25), Managing Director and worldwide head of financial option arbitrage at CIBC-Wood Gundy, derivatives arbitrage trader at Bankers Trust, proprietary trader at BNP-Paribas, as well as independent option market maker on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (...). Current Editorial Boards and Scientific Committees (that I remember): U.S. Secretary of Defense's Cross-Disciplinary Highland Panel, Journal of Alternative Investments, Warsaw Institute of Psychology in Business, Université Paris-Dauphine DESS 203, etc. Current Corporate Boards: Centaurus Capital LP Alpha Fund, Centaurus Kappa Fund. Education: includes an MBA from Wharton, and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris (Paris 9 Dauphine). The Ph.D. committee included: Hélyette Geman, Marco Avellaneda, Nicole Elkaroui, Dilip Madan, & Jacques Hamon.

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Tags: black epistemology markets mnnnyc randomness swan synergy

Rating: 4.23 (35 ratings) Views: 17914' favoriteCount='111 Comments: 25

d0gsurfer Says:

Feb 9, 2008 - This interviewer has 293 interviews on YouTube. This isn't his first. "Inconceivable!" - Vizzini

downwiz2 Says:

Feb 13, 2008 - JUST STFU HAROLD CHANNER IF YOU HAVE ZERO KNOLWEDGE OF THE SUBJECT AND LET THE MAN S PEaK HOLY SHIT STOP POSTING YOUR SENSELESS SHIT

tysen2003 Says:

Mar 7, 2008 - The probability of the interviewer being a dumbass are 99.9%.... Bloody annoying.... Dr Taleb should have walked off the set

cheeryble Says:

Mar 8, 2008 - Undoubtedly the WORST interview ever. I was DYING to hear two sentences uninterrupted from the very interesting Taleb. How can Channer be this unaware?

turygin Says:

Mar 12, 2008 - Oh, My God! Taleb should have smacked that guy!

sakinakka Says:

Mar 14, 2008 - a genius iviewed by an dumb asshole. It would be great if Taleb could give a trasncript of this video without the old dumb asshole.

number1yangsta Says:

Mar 14, 2008 - Heh yeah.. the interviewer ruined it.

semiliteratedgod Says:

Mar 14, 2008 - holy shit, maybe the worst interviewer IN THE WORLD

JeromeWer Says:

Apr 5, 2008 - I never thought I would post a comment on Youtube, but this interviewer is such a g.d. moron that I had to. Did he really have to interject the bit about 200,000 years ago instead of 160,000 years ago? Did he have to have a seizure about the word "probabilistic"? The interviewer is horrendous. Un-fxxxing believable.

nwkennon Says:

May 6, 2008 - I agree. It PAINS me to listen to the interviewer.

BOMBER312 Says:

May 7, 2008 - Oh my god, I can't stand the interviewer. Why doesn't he just shut up and let him talk...seriously unbelievable

cation102 Says:

Jun 1, 2008 - I agree, too. I'm only 2 minutes in and the interviewer is driving me nuts!! He needs a muzzle.

morphinemorphine Says:

Jun 4, 2008 - the interviwer is a fuckin twat

morphinemorphine Says:

Jun 4, 2008 - what is the probability of that old twat shutting his fuckin mouth.wanker

rackoon777 Says:

Jun 12, 2008 - this interviewer is by far the most annoying person on earth... can he let him say one whole sentence???????????

umpazump Says:

Jun 15, 2008 - He says he has found a way to make a living doing this crap.

shaman683 Says:

Jun 30, 2008 - As a professional broadcaster for over 35 years,this guy is the worst interviewer I have EVER seen! Taleb is brilliant and should be let to talk with few interruptions as possible. This awful interviewer is making my old ulcer fire back up!

donnca Says:

Jul 2, 2008 - I didn't think he was that bad, and it is viewed as a conversation tather than an interview-somewhat mitigating its rambling nature

hoshor Says:

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TomasOakFields Says:

Jul 20, 2008 - I think their interaction is beautifully hilarious. As it likely depicts various similar "conversations" that Taleb has on a frequent basis.

mikesblack Says:

Aug 16, 2008 - Agreed- The interviewer throws out irrelevant crap and does not allow Taleb to finis his thoughts. Frustrating.

Teratornis Says:

Aug 26, 2008 - The "interviewer" should try interviewing Ángel Matos (the Cuban taekwondo athlete who kicked the referee). Then maybe after the 300th "uh-huh" and "yea yea yea yea I I uh see see", Matos would earn himself a lifetime ban from being interviewed by annoying people.

aaa14774 Says:

Oct 19, 2008 - I will add another data point to this probablistic curve: The "interviewer" is the worst ever. This is the second interview from this guy (the interviewer) and I gave him the benefit of the doubt the first time, but seriously: can you be any more annoying? If you are going to interrupt and talk non-stop, don't invite anyone! And stop name-dropping to make yourself look smart: you look like the dumbass you are! And for the love of god stop saying "sinergy", "entropy", "consciosness". Obnoxious.

XxMissToxiicxX Says:

Oct 22, 2008 - my ex bf hacked me and put my nude pics all over the internet. you can go2 my profile to see them. 20-F-New York - MSG me on M.S.N. ID is in my profile. aJ

leballin05 Says:

Nov 27, 2008 - that old fuckin cook!! STFU ! let the man talk u idiot