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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Rationality, Risk, and Skin in the Game

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Mar 5, 2018
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
What Is an Absorbing Barrier?
01:44 • 6min
3
How to Make Money in a Casino
07:47 • 2min
4
Is It Irrational to Treat Money Differently for the Money You Lose?
09:29 • 2min
5
How to Make Money in a Financial Market
11:20 • 5min
6
Do You Cross the Street?
16:00 • 6min
7
How to Survive
21:41 • 3min
8
Is Religion Irrational?
25:03 • 5min
9
Judging Religion Without Its Trike Record
30:23 • 2min
10
I Don't Like That You Aren't Eating Pork, or Shellfish
32:27 • 2min
11
The Difference Between Atheism and Secularism
34:11 • 5min
12
Skinning the Game
39:31 • 2min
13
Are You Saying That the Pope Is a Hypocrite Forgoing to the Hospital?
41:54 • 3min
14
Don't Run Away Without Your Shield
45:16 • 2min
15
The Modern Challenge That's Gin Ind the Game Faces
46:57 • 5min
16
The Normal Idea of Skin in the Game
51:48 • 2min
17
The Market Is Going to Be Rational
53:31 • 2min
18
Is Aas Follows Yu Have, You Can Have Zero Intelligence Players and Very Intelligent to the Market Crazy.
55:41 • 2min
19
Is There Such a Thing as Inequality?
57:19 • 4min
20
Is It Immoral to Read to Your Kids Before They Go to Bed?
01:01:32 • 4min
21
We're Going to Have Tea Shirts
01:05:45 • 4min
22
Are You Done?
01:09:35 • 5min