Comments on: Nassim Taleb on BP oil spill

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By: al3aredh

al3aredh — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:14:25 +0000

It’s too bad for America that administrations have “special interests” advisors (Paulson, Geithner).

Wall Street pays out billions in bonuses and over paid execs… Oil companies post record profits while receiving tax breaks and subsidies… Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million have a serious illness caused by smoking while the US govt subsidizes tobacco!

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By: Beth Rubin

Beth Rubin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:22:53 +0000

Good job, Katharine. I agree with Jack C. Insanity! But I can rest easier knowing LeBron James will rake in close to $17 million during his first season with the Heat. There’s good news. We sure have our priorities in order.

By: Joe Stafura

Joe Stafura — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:27:37 +0000

Nic is right on again, the alignment of incentives and outcomes is skewed towards risk for others and rewards for uninvolved.

Derivatives on food is a perfect example, over 80 percent of the people that buy wheat on the market never intend to take delivery, so farmers and bakers are being squeezed by greedy jerks in suits.

We should dump them into a harvester or pass laws so that they can’t ove food prices with speculation. Either one works for me.

By: Adriano R. de Lima

Adriano R. de Lima — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:46:16 +0000

Terrific. Nassim is correct. This things also happen due to the wrong understanding of what is “optimization”. Sometimes, to cut costs means to increase them at some areas in the company and reduce in others. The whole optimization does not means to optimize all parts of the system.

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By: JackC NYC

JackC NYC — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:39:24 +0000

It’s too bad for America that administrations have “special interests” advisors (Paulson, Geithner).

Insanity!!

By: NTAK

NTAK — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:38:00 +0000

And by an extended logic: “rats work harder when the rewards are unpredictable (B.F.Skinner, Psychologist)”. No wonder the risk-hiding tendency is matched by legendary hours spent at work that some industries have become famous for! So, a limitless incentive linked to irrelevant metric -> more risk cover ups -> longer hours worked. Everybody is happy until the unthinkable happens!