The author of the "Black Swan" called the mistake of anti-vaxxers and miners

Many people made the mistake of reading the book "Antifragile" and armed with the slogan "what does not kill you makes you stronger", this is a misinterpretation, the author of the book said. He criticized people who chose to ignore covid-19 Nassim Nicholas TalebNassim Nicholas TalebNassim Nicholas TalebNassim Nicholas TalebNassim Nicholas Taleb

Cryptocurrency miners, vaccine skeptics, venture capitalists have misunderstood the idea of ​​“antifragility”; this concept assumes that the system improves its performance and thrives in response to stress, chaos, upheaval and instability. This idea was expressed by the author of the concept of “antifragility”, publicist, economist Nassim Taleb, writes BLOOMBERG.

“The same group of people who read [the book] Antifragile and thought, 'Hey, you know, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Let's get covid. And let's ignore COVID, it will make us stronger," he said on the Odd Lots podcast.

Taleb admitted that he made a mistake when studying the structure of bitcoin, not taking into account the fact that the cryptocurrency is unstable and depends on the continued work of miners, while gold will remain gold even after a millennium.

Taleb also felt that venture capital was showing signs of a pyramid scheme, and that many leaders in the field "feel like society owes them something because we use the iPhone." “They believe that if we use the iPhone, then we owe them something and should bail them out if necessary,” the economist said.

Taleb is the author of the concept of "black swan", described by him in the book "Black Swan. Under the sign of unpredictability. In it, the economist wrote that almost all events that had a significant impact on global politics, people's lives and markets were completely unpredictable.

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“Black Swan logic makes what you don’t know much more important than what you know. Consider that many Black Swans can be caused and exacerbated by their surprise,” he wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times. In it, he suggested as an example to recall the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States , pointing out that if the attacks could be predicted, then fighter jets would circle in the sky above the twin towers, the planes would be equipped with bulletproof doors.

The Times called Taleb the most outstanding thinker of our time.