Names Not Numbers Symposium An annual thought leadership symposium. Multimedia
Fragility, Complexity & Society (mp3) Talk with Q&A
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Former Trader and Author of ‘The Black Swan’
Q&A moderated by Matthew Taylor, RSA
Shared by JohnH
Audio from the BBC. Intelligence Symposium in Portmeirion, with Oceanographer Sylvia Earle and painter, poet Frieda Hughes. HatTip to Dave Lull.
Lebanese- American Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’. His latest book ‘The Bed of Procrustes’ ‘ addresses the ways in which humans “squeeze life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas”. He discusses the tension between rationalism and empiricism and argues that too much knowledge can be a burden.
mp3 is available for download for another 25 days.
The TRAGEDY OF THE APOPHATIC. Just to show that to nerds things that don’t have a name don’t appear to exist – & same problem 1) fail to understand uncertainty, 2) cannot connect dots, 3) cannot understand religion (what they don’t see doesn’t exist) and, from 3, 4) fall for the problem of induction/ confirmation.
Friends, I need help: When did we start using Euclid’s axiomatic geometry in architecture? It seems to be that we had been building structures heuristically (including cathedrals), without any formal framework, that Euclid appeared late as a “lecturing birds how to fly” effect. Thanks
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/AntiFragilityFeb20.pdf
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