There is the problem of people pushing downside risks, especially unlikely but large ones, onto taxpayers, shareholders or others. If you win, great, you've won, and if you lose big, whoops, oh well, sorry guys
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Children who can postpone gratification do better in life. There are many possible explanations for this. It's possible that having discipline leads to success, it's possible that other factors that cause success also cause or correlate with discipline. Some amount of both is almost certainly true
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One of Taleb's best metaphors is that of the Thanksgiving turkey, and how important it is not to be one. I love the metaphor, and want to take it farther
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Prompted by one of my commentators, let's cut to the chase of The Black Swan, since that's necessary before one can tackle Antifragile. In fact, one of the great reliefs of reading Antifragile is that it assumes you've read or understood the previous two books; I am so sick of not finding properly advanced reading material that builds upon rather
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I don't share the comment author's utility function either. That's the point.
Sexual activity is a nice thing. People are telling other people not to have this nice thing, by convincing them it would be bad, because it involves becoming At Risk. And That'
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Nice things, whether or not they are physical objects, are awesome. They are much better than things that are not nice, or not having things at all
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All west as expected, and now it's West vs. East as the race to Italy begins. Chances are that one of the two sides breaks but it could be a long time. I won't comment on this game until something interesting happens.
We now have two clear sides: G/E/I/R against A/T/F... for now. The game master is being coy about the situation but it's hard to be clearer than that. Turkey can take the Ionian Sea and Austria can knock out Venice with the risk being Germany sneaking Trieste. I don't expect either side to try anything on the eastern front for a while. The question
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