Socrates used to consider that hunger was the best seasoning… He understood Jensen’s Inequality (antigragility).
He would be seen pacing outside his house at dinner time, trying to resist going inside. When questioned by his neighbors, his answer was: “I am seasoning my dinner”.
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Note: there are other sources on Socrates than Plato’s, portraying a very pragmatic fellow.
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Remember next time you attend a university lecture that the same people who teach Socrates today would have voted to put him to death then.
Source: (1) Remember next time you attend a university… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/591731877305778176
nntaleb: Fat Tony out-argues Socrates the Athenian, an argumentative man www.fooledbyrandomness.com/FatTony2.pdf (comnts welcome…but not abt typos)