Black Swans and MPT

whats taleb’s alluding to Mandelbrot’s work mean?.is he trying to say that fractal geometry stuff provides more insight than the gaussian worldview?

Dsylexic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > whats taleb’s alluding to Mandelbrot’s work > mean?.is he trying to say that fractal geometry > stuff provides more insight than the gaussian > worldview? yea in situations where the outcomes you’re considering are scalable (taleb’s term for it) – in situations analogous to where it’s possible to observe a 1,000 foot tall man.