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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American author, statistician, risk researcher, and former trader. Through works such as The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile, he has become an influential figure in debates about probability, uncertainty, risk, and the limits of prediction.