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ludic fallacy

noun

Etymology

Identified by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book The Black Swan (2007).

Definitions

  1. The misuse of game when modeling real-life situations.

    • I have explained the ludic fallacy with the casino story, and have insisted that the sterilized randomness of games does not resemble randomness in real life.

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