To make a philosopher king, you start with a king, not a philosopher -something Plato and his successors have had a hard time figuring out.
To make a philosopher king…
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Most victories aren’t victories.
Most victories aren’t victories.
Managed to prove…
Managed to prove and define fragility as sensitivity to:
The Disorder CLUSTER: i) uncertainty, ii) variability, iii) imperfect, incomplete knowledge, iv) chance, v) chaos, vi) volatility, vii) disorder, viii) entropy, ix) time, x) the unknown, xi) randomness, xii) turmoil, xiii) stressor, xiv) error, xv) dispersion of outcomes.
(with Raphael Douady)
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/technicalproofdisorder.pdf
For a good conversation…
For a good conversation (and writing), refrain from a direct statement or description of what the audience has already figured out. Informational redundancy -unlike other forms -comes at a very high cost.
DOMAIN DEPENDENCE…
DOMAIN DEPENDENCE and BLINDNESS TO ANTIFRAGILITY
The same doctor might recommend exercise so you “get tougher”, and a few minutes later write a prescription for antibiotics in response to a trivial infection so you “don’t get sick”.Imagine someone capable in learning languages, but unable to transfer concepts from one tongue to another, so he would need to relearn “chair” or “love”, or “apple pie” every time he acquires a new language. He would not recognize “house” (English) and “casa” (Spanish) or “beyt” Semitic. We are all, in a way, handicapped in a similar way, unable to recognize ideas when presented in a different contexts. It is as if we were doomed to be fooled by the most possibly superficial part of things, the packaging, the gift-wrapping paper around the object. This is why we don’t see antifragility in places that are obvious, too obvious.