Nassim Taleb – privatizing risk in society – GAIM International 2012
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Friends, a chapter…
Friends, a chapter on medicine, for comments. Very controversial of course.
Also, THANK YOU ALL, the book goes to production today. I am done! over the past 5 years, 1150 complete days ALONE in my library thinking about (anti)fragility and nonlinearity.
We find it unjust…
We find it unjust that some are born with an economic disadvantage while others are favored; we don’t find it unfair that some, because of their looks, are born with an enormous physical advantage.
WHY WE SHOULD READ SENECA NOT…
WHY WE SHOULD READ SENECA NOT, SAY, LEHRER. From Chapt 22: NEUROBABBLEWhen it comes to narratives, the brain seems to be the last province of the theoretician-charlatan. Add neurosomething to a field, and suddenly it rises in respectability and becomes more convincing as people now have the illusion of a strong causal link—yet the brain is too complex for that; it is both the most complex part of the human anatomy and the one that is the most susceptible to sucker-causation and charlatanism of the type “Proust was a neuroscientist”. Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons brought to my attention in their book The Invisible Gorilla the evidence I had been looking for: whatever theory has a reference in it to the brain circuitry seems more “scientific” and more convincing, even when it is just is randomized psycho-neuro-babble.
Folly is contagious…
Folly is contagious; common sense not so much. Wisdom must cross generations through interdicts, not memories.
via Folly is… | Facebook.