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(DON"T WORRY I WILL TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH LATER but the gist is that EVERYTHING NONLINEAR IN LIFE IS A SERIES OF STAIRS of UNEVEN SIZE). Think of a one-step staircase. On one side you can only rise, on the other you can only fall. Of course there are combinations (various steps differing in size).The Heaviside Function (integral of the Dirac Delta Function) [H[x] =1 if x> x0, 0 otherwise] can be used as the Atomic block for ALL situations of robustness, fragility, & antifragility. NONLINEAR situations can be presented as series of weighted H[x], or integrals of series of H[x] (hint: this is European DIGITAL option, so it can be integrated …).I used this to PROVE that fragility = concavity, negative optionality; antifragility = convexity, positive optionality.

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(DON”T WORRY I WILL TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH LATER but the gist is that EVERYTHING NONLINEAR IN LIFE IS A SERIES OF STAIRS of UNEVEN SIZE).
Think of a one-step staircase. On one side you can only rise, on the other you can only fall. Of course there are combinations (various steps differing in size).
The Heaviside Function (integral of the Dirac Delta Function) [H[x] =1 if x> x0, 0 otherwise] can be used as the Atomic block for ALL situations of robustness, fragility, & antifragility.
NONLINEAR situations can be presented as series of weighted H[x], or integrals of series of H[x] (hint: this is European DIGITAL option, so it can be integrated …).
I used this to PROVE that fragility = concavity, negative optionality; antifragility = convexity, positive optionality.


AntiFragility

THANKS all friends; this collective crosslinguistic search for Antifragility worked well on FB; will give you all credit in book. Now need to prove explicitly that PHILOSTOCHASTIC systems are Philoentropic & functionally convex to the variable against which they are antifragile -optionlike payoffs.There is blindness to antifragility proved by absence of such word across languages.

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THANKS all friends; this collective crosslinguistic search for Antifragility worked well on FB; will give you all credit in book.
Now need to prove explicitly that PHILOSTOCHASTIC systems are Philoentropic & functionally convex to the variable against which they are antifragile -optionlike payoffs.
There is blindness to antifragility proved by absence of such word across languages.

Best definition of our role as philosophers. Michel Serres: "The Committee for the Aswan dam in Egypt had all specialities except: 1) an egyptologist; 2) a philosopher." QUESTION: Egyptologist, OK, but why did they need a philosopher? REPLY: " He would have noticed the absence of the egyptologist". [via Jean-Claude Carriere]

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Best definition of our role as philosophers. Michel Serres: “The Committee for the Aswan dam in Egypt had all specialities except: 1) an egyptologist; 2) a philosopher.” QUESTION: Egyptologist, OK, but why did they need a philosopher? REPLY: ” He would have noticed the absence of the egyptologist”. [via Jean-Claude Carriere]

festivalscienzalive – Conferenze – Robustezza e Fragilità

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It looks as though there should be an English option, but it’s not working just now. NNT delivered the lecture in English but what you hear is an Italian translation overdub. If/when I find the English version I’ll repost.

Robustezza e Fragilità

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In questo video la conferenza con l’autore del discusso “Cigno Nero”, che ha tenuto una lectio magistralis dedicata ai temi del ultimo libro “Robustezza e Fragilità”, naturale continuazione delle riflessioni che hanno caratterizzato le sue evoluzioni di pensiero.
 
In questo video la conferenza con l’autore del discusso “Cigno Nero”, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, che ha tenuto una lectio magistralis dedicata ai temi del ultimo libro “Robustezza e Fragilità”, naturale continuazione delle riflessioni che hanno caratterizzato le sue evoluzioni di pensiero.