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CONTENTS
Prologue
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8¾ Lbs Later
The Four-Letter Word of Independence
Limousine Philosopher
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Counting to Three
Saw Another Red Mini!
Not Everything
Back to Mediocristan
Peer Cruelty
Where the Relevant Is the Sensational
Nonlinearities
Process over Results
Human Nature, Happiness, and Lumpy Rewards
The Antechamber of Hope
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Inebriated by Hope
The Sweet Trap of Anticipation
When You Need the Bastiani Fortress
El desierto de los tártaros
Bleed or Blowup
Fat Tony
Non-Brooklyn John
Lunch at Lake Como
The Uncertainty of the Nerd
Gambling with the Wrong Dice
Wrapping Up Part One
The Cosmetic Rises to the Surface
Distance from Primates
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Chapter 19: Half and Half, or How to Get Even with the Black Swan
GLOSSARY
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Problems
David Freedman, RIP
Decisions
The Fourth Quadrant, a Map
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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In order to preserve the integrity of the original text, I have limited the
updating of the current edition to a small number of footnotes. I added a
long Postscript essay, going deeper into philosophical and empirical
discussions of the subject and addressing some misunderstandings of the
concept of the Black Swan that cropped up after the initial publication of the
book.
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PROLOGUE
Before the discovery of Australia, people in the Old World were convinced
that all swans were white, an unassailable belief as it seemed completely
confirmed by empirical evidence. The sighting of the first black swan might
have been an interesting surprise for a few ornithologists (and others
extremely concerned with the coloring of birds), but that is not where the
significance of the story lies. It illustrates a severe limitation to our learning
from observations or experience and the fragility of our knowledge. One
single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from
millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need
*
is one single (and, I am told, quite ugly) black bird.
I push one step beyond this philosophical-logical question into an
†
empirical reality, and one that has obsessed me since childhood. What we
call here a Black Swan (and capitalize it) is an event with the following three
attributes.
First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations,
because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility.
Second, it carries an extreme impact (unlike the bird). Third, in spite of its
outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its
occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.
I stop and summarize the triplet: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective
*
(though not prospective) predictability. A small number of Black Swans
explain almost everything in our world, from the success of ideas and
religions, to the dynamics of historical events, to elements of our own
personal lives. Ever since we left the Pleistocene, some ten millennia ago,
the effect of these Black Swans has been increasing. It started accelerating
during the industrial revolution, as the world started getting more
complicated, while ordinary events, the ones we study and discuss and try
to predict from reading the newspapers, have become increasingly
inconsequential.
Just imagine how little your understanding of the world on the eve of the
events of 1914 would have helped you guess what was to happen next.
(Don’t cheat by using the explanations drilled into your cranium by your dull
high school teacher.) How about the rise of Hitler and the subsequent war?
How about the precipitous demise of the Soviet bloc? How about the
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