Anonymous ID: 8500f7 Oct. 29, 2025, 4:40 p.m. No.23787410   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>7418

Anton LaVey, the founder of The Church of Satan, died 28 years ago today, October 29.

 

Anton LaVey - Interview from "Death Scenes" (ORIGINAL)

 

https://youtu.be/d8NTdqgFbDk

 

Clips from an interview with Anton LaVey, from the movie, "Death Scenes", circa 1989.

Anonymous ID: 8500f7 Oct. 29, 2025, 5:22 p.m. No.23787579   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>7604 >>7631

>>23787528

''The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable'' 2007 by Nassim Taleb

 

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.

 

Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we donโ€™t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the โ€œimpossible.โ€

 

For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we donโ€™t know, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, โ€œOn Robustness and Fragility,โ€ which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.

 

black swan:

rapture

black swan:

3I Atlas

 

they know the exact date of the Black Swan Event