Seneca was a stoic, but not that type of stoic. Rewrote the section to make it clear.
Seneca was a stoic, but not that type of stoic.
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
For the nonorganic…
For the nonorganic, noncomplex, say an object on the table, equilibrium happens in a state of inertia. For something organic, equilibrium is synonym to death.
[Chapter on Political Volatility]
The continuation of Seneca’s asymmetry
[Unfortunately the link is broken. I don’t have the pdf and NNT is pretty clear about not sharing the documents he posts to FooledByRandomnexx.com anyway.]
The continuation of Seneca’s asymmetry: “Fragility is the new blue”. I need to find the person who wrote it to give proper credit.
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/fragility-blue.pdf
Finally found a way…
Finally found a way to explain the central asymmetry of life leading to nonlinearities (convexity effects)
www.fooledbyrandomness.com/Seneca.pdf
via Finally found a way….
The entire idea of via negativa…
The entire idea of via negativa is that omission [avoidance of harm, removal of drugs, corn syrup, cigarettes, gluten, carbs by fasting, gym instructors, tail risks, etc.] does not have side effects and branching chains of unintended consequences -hence robust. But big corporations [evil pharma, pepsi] and consultants cannot make money from removing; they only benefit from adding.