A few things that some cranks don’t get about #Antifragile + What kills you doesn’t make you stronger. + Viruses that don’t kill you don’t necessarily make you stronger.
Category: Antifragile
The “cure for aging” is to have children. Vastly more effective and adaptive to environmental variations, see #Antifragile Yalli khallaf ma met. David Boxenhorn
Explain to me why you need a study to know that. “Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.” #Antifragile
The academic system is broken. In place of the current system, they should grand PhDs in philosophy to all adults. Then, if the person make more than three elementary fallacies, remove her of his doctorate. Much more effective.
The pandemic is not “unprecedented”. What is unprecedented is: FRAGILITY + PANDEMIC Our economic system has never been more fragile, more stretched, more vulnerable to small disruptions. Imbecile, it means it is vulnerable to the smallest disruption.
American Universities are going to be totally controlled by Robestpierristas (by the minority rule). I mean, totally, as there is no visible countermechanism. Sorry for the innocent funders of their endowments.
Ms Gleeson, you do not seem to get asymmetries, nor my work. What is fragile will end up breaking. Universities: If this continues, expect tenured faculty to get serious pay cuts & to finally have to justify their existence & the USEFULNESS of their so-called “research”.
Having a lot of Twitter followers… not necessarily
How you did in this pandemic, as a country, a village, a business, a group, or an individual, whether emotionally, economically, or morally, is an indication of how robust you are and how fit you will be for the next decades. 2/ Things that went intellectually bankrupt over the pandemics & will hardly recover: Epidemiology Fortune cookie (positive) “evidence” base science Bureaucratic topdown structures: WHO, CDC, UK Group Rent seeking academia can no longer be financed. Universities will crumble.
ADAPTATION Do a total reset professionally, economically, personally. Treat this thing as if it were here to stay & make sure you can do with it. If it goes away, it will be a bonus but remember that the shadow of the following one will be progressively built into the system. 2) Many small professional resets: learned to lecture on Zoom. Learned to set up a blackboard behind me for illustrations. Of course could start a business along these lines. Universities are going out of business & there is something to grab as they are too incompetent to adapt. 3) Personal resets: I have been eating in restaurants 10 times a week… Hard to adapt to new environment because home eating can ~ food quality w/best ingredients but will never replace the exhilaration of an ambient crowd… Maybe they will reset & start garden restaurants!
