Taleb Slides - edge
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Problem of Small Probability
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The Telescope Problem
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Two Domains
Type 1- CLT in real time
Type 2- No CLT in real time
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Temporal Instability
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Sampling Error & Pareto Tails
• Shortfall EXTREMELY sensitive to α
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“Measurability” • Norm L-2 :
“variance” (STD), Least-Square methods, etc.
• Power Laws /scalable theoretically better, but NON-CALIBRATABLE where it matters
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“Measurability” • Old distinction
“Knightian”, “measurable risk v/s nonmeasurable uncertainty”
• Conflation of “measure” & “estimate”
• Nonmeasurability a function of remoteness of the event
• Lack of rigor at the foundations
• Lack of empirical rigor
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Past & Future
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Regular is predictive of regular
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Fallacy of Volatility
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Two Processes
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“TheGreatModera-on”
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Left Tail Invisible Left Tail
Left Tail & Silent Evidence (Diagoras problem)
“conditional on my being here, I didn’t need health insurance” Bill Fung
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Survival Conditioning
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Consequence • Forecasting • Deficits • Portfolio theory
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Sub-Problems with Small Probabilities
• HARD: Inverse problem (or non-observability of a generator of a random process, degrees of freedom fitting nonlinearities)
(Classical Problem of Induction)
• Correcting for survival-conditioned probability
• Preasymptotics (strong or weak) • “Atypicality” of Moves • Correcting for the
Ludic Fallacy
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Central Problem • HARD: Non
measurability of small probability, neither empirically, nor theoretically
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Use & Moment Mo
“True/False M1
Expectations M2+
Medicine Finance (Investments) Derivative payoffs Psychology Insurance Calibration of nonlinear
models Bets (prediction markets) General risk management Kurtosis-based
positioning (“volatility trading”)
Binary/Digital derivatives
Climate Cubic payoffs (strips of out of the money options)
Life/Death Economics (Policy) What Else? Security: Terrorism,
Natural catastrophes …About EVERYTHING !
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Mm = π iλim∑
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APPLICATION Simple payoffs
M0 (m=0)
Complex payoffs
M1+ (M ≥1) DOMAIN
Distribution 1 (“thin tailed”)
Extremely Robust Robust
Distribution 2 (no or unknown characteristic scale)
Extremely Robust LIMITS of Statistics
(Black Swan Domain)
Mm = 1A p(λ)∫ λm dλ
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More Modest Problem Proposed
• Define boundaries of the Black Swan Domain.
• Program of Robustness in the Black Swan Domain
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Tacit
Explicit