Saudi Arabia: with so much accumulated fragility, any reform, no matter if positive or negative, will accelerate collapse. Change is v. bad.
Category: Antifragile
Another person who doesn’t understand convexity. In other words, don’t cross a river because it is 4 feet deep ON AVERAGE. Gabish? #Antifragile The more people do “data” the less they understand its information.
The university system is on its way to go bus t. It will regroup as separate technical schools devoid of “gender” & other BS studies. “Study the classics” and “study the classics under academics” selected via “papers” are two different things. Most “humanities” profs have minimal erudition; they spent their time studying THEORIES made by other profs. Universities killed humanities Saddest thing abt the Weinstein affair: he has to specify that he is “on the left”, as if it were a requirement to express an opinion.
I wish a Nobel Prize to one of my economist enemies so he feels the insecurity of a pedestal. As Cato (elder) said, better be asked why there is no statue honoring you than the reverse
It used to take ten years to figure out if a book is a book or a counterfeit version between covers (journalism). It now takes about two years. Soon it will only take a year. This is the main benefit of acceleration in the information age: the fragile breaks faster.
GREED-PROOF NOT GREED-FREE: Two millennia ago, Sallust wrote the following: “When I was a callow young man, I plunged enthusiastically into public life. Instead of modesty, brazenness flourished; instead of self-restraint, bribery; instead of merit, avarice (…)my youthful weakness was corrupted and gripped by ambition. Although I refrained from the wicked ways of the rest, still the same craving for advancement that plagued them with ill-repute and jealousy plagued me too.”(Bell. Cat., III.3) — 22 centuries from now (if we make it), someone will be writing the same. Yet we hear utopianizing idiots (such as the maker of the movie “Inside Jobs”) bemoaning the “greed” of bankers, the bureaucratizing minds of bureaucrats, not realizing that these are embedded in human nature. Anyone who think we can correct humans is similar to those who think that they will get it right “the next time”… ANTIFRAGILE-The only strategy for us is to build a greed-resistant system… or go further benefit from the greed of humans. And build systems in which politicians are harmless. http://uq.edu.au/hprcflex/lt2310/sallust1.htm
ON THE BENEFITS OF FRAGILITY Neckties are fragile and delicate; they force people into a tame social behavior; they get damaged in fights and when one rolls in the mud.
