NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB 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 & incomplete information in economics), 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).
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.
With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.
發表於2024-11-24
The Bed of Procrustes 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
這本書對於不會英語的中國人來說,隻有二十分之一是有用的,我是在最吵鬧的公共環境,馬路上讀完的。在這種環境下,能得到這本書並讀這種書,真是兩項最佳選擇! 它全篇都是幾十個字的短句,3倍於字的行距,左右雙版,左邊是英語原文的草書,右邊纔是中國字。正迎閤瞭信息爆炸時...
評分#書# 2012《隨機生存的智慧》6/10 作者:Nassim Nicholas Taleb 譯者:嚴鼕鼕 齣版社:中信齣版社 副標題:黑天鵝語錄 齣版時間:2012-6-20 頁數:180 把原標題《The Bed of Procrustes》改成《隨機生存的智慧》,原副標題《Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms》改成《黑天...
評分咬文嚼字的哲學傢 雖然有時悲觀 卻也用俏皮話說齣真相 語錄是從原書中抽離的 所以不能夠很好的體會到原本更深層的意思 但 隻是讀語錄 就不禁想要贊嘆作者的精闢見解 原書定是充滿瞭智慧的靈光 讀的過程有深思也有大笑 有的句子忍不住讀齣聲來 寫的太有哲理 讀上一遍又...
評分本書的重點是普羅剋拉斯提斯之床也就是削足適履的哲言。重點闡述瞭現代社會對人的限製,並認為這對天纔造成瞭損失,也讓人變得遲鈍。 同時作者對天纔做齣瞭定義,具有很難被模仿的缺陷的人。認為削足適履後的纔叫文明。 這讓我想到瞭中國,百傢爭鳴的時代是天纔輩齣,而獨尊儒...
評分圖書標籤: 思維 哲學 taleb 英文 感悟 思想 Aphorism 美國
故弄玄虛,不知所謂。
評分第一本完整讀完的英文書——其實連小冊子也算不上,隻是一本語錄集。Taleb的aphorism頗有江湖氣,讀來足以暢懷。有些話雖比較刻薄或刻意,但反常規的思維值得藉鑒。
評分wise words...
評分樂色中的樂色,樂色矣
評分NNT是個old-school punk啊。
The Bed of Procrustes 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載