nntaleb: The Stoic sage shd withdraw frm public efforts when unheeded & state is corrupt beyond repair.[Seneca] Wiser to wait for selfdestruction.

nntaleb: @pkedrosky it means nothing can be deemed unconditionally good or unconditionally bad. I systematized what Nietzsche said intuitively

nntaleb: @PhilipHotchkiss Complexity= More causal opacity (less visible rules, hence less Platonic forms) –will send kedrosky draft as per custom

nntaleb: There is nothing deemed harmful (in general) that cannot be beneficial in some particular instances. Universals are weaker under complexity.

nntaleb: New tragedy of universals: There is nothing harmful in the general that cannot be good in some instances of the particular. Nothing.