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A conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram (July 2, 2021) [Part 1]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is the Meanfield Problem in Economics?

I came to economics without knowing anything about anything, and then later on picked up stuff. So i don't ask myself question come from stuff. Someone asked me with statistical mechanics, i say, you haveot of energy in economics, right? I think that's too narrow a view of statistical mechanics. And i can explain it again here in terms of the galc ok. What is a law of large numbers? Is an aggregation? Yes? What is central limit? Is an aggregator? Ok. Some things aggregate very well, ok. But your eurer, your your portfolio is not large enough for that to happen. If wou lived in the galcian world, then

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