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Monthly Archives: November 2010

1) Milano, walks & muscato desert wine.2) My ethical system can be reduced to the following: OPPORTUNISM is despicable in all its forms -under constraints of manners. Classicism clashes with post-4th C. AD: doing good to go to heaven or other reward (to be lucky) is CORRUPT in essence. Modernism & Middle class values are the most corrupted by post-classical system of fitting ethics to behavior (hence "economics").

1) Milano, walks & muscato desert wine.2) My ethical system can be reduced to the following: OPPORTUNISM is despicable in all its forms -under constraints of manners. Classicism clashes with post-4th C. AD: doing good to go to heaven or other rewar…

The World in 2036: Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won't | The Economist

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Strange to see NNT making ANY kind of prediction, in principal. I am reminded of Marshall McLuhan- he thought of his ideas as ‘probes’, not meant to be taken literally, but to serve as areas of intellectual energy he felt should be b…

a)Preparing for a lecture is highly unethical: if it is not interesting enough for you to know independently, then you should not be lecturing on it. Otherwise:prostitution.b) Studying for an exam is unethical (but to a lesser extent): if you are not interested in the material, you should not be gaming the system.So far I have NEVER prepared a lecture, but have not yet penalized students for b).

a)Preparing for a lecture is highly unethical: if it is not interesting enough for you to know independently, then you should not be lecturing on it. Otherwise:prostitution.b) Studying for an exam is unethical (but to a lesser extent): if you are not i…

Nassim Taleb | Suzanne Ma Online

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It’s great to see NNT’s ideas put to use. Raise the standards!
Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, has written about this. He calls it the “narrative fallacy” which is a fancy way of saying the news media takes the facts at …

It takes both insight & character to know the value of what you have before you lose it.[ Οι γαρ κακοι γνομαισιν ταγαθον χεροιν/εχοντες, ουκ ισασι,πριν τις εκβαλη, "Vulgar minds can only know the price of what they have the day they have lost it",in AJAX, Sophocles]http://books.google.com/books?id=j44LBI9MQpUC&dq=ουκ+ισασι%2Cπριν+τις+&q=ισασι#v=snippet&q=ισασι&f=false

It takes both insight & character to know the value of what you have before you lose it.[ Οι γαρ κακοι γνομαισιν ταγαθον χεροιν/εχοντες, ουκ ισασι,πριν τις εκβαλη, “Vulgar minds can only k…