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by TheGallopedHigh 1863 days ago
So called fat tailed distributions are a random walk. It’s just that their sample distribution is a power law (no mean hence fat tail). Example of which is a Lévy flight: a random walk with a heavy tail.

Here’s a link for your perusal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_flight