Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Taleb Nassim Nicholas

Author:Taleb, Nassim Nicholas [Taleb, Nassim Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9780679645276
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2012-11-26T20:00:00+00:00

1 The other biographer of Socrates, Xenophon, presents a different picture. The Socrates of the Memorabilia is no-nonsense and down to earth; he despises sterile knowledge, and the experts who study matters without practical consequence when so many useful and important things are neglected (instead of looking at stars to understand causes, figure out how you can use them to navigate; use geometry to measure land, but no more).

2 Adam Smith was first and last a moral philosopher. Marx was a philosopher. Kahneman and Simon are psychologist and cognitive scientist, respectively. The exception is, of course, Hayek.

3 The philosopher Rupert Read convinced me that Hayek harbored in fact a strain of naive rationalism, as did Popper, and presents convincing arguments that the two should not be included in the category of antifragile thinkers.

4 The reader might wonder about the connection between education and disorder. Education is teleological and hates disorder. It tends to cater to fragilistas.

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