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Monthly Archives: July 2013

THE DECENTRALIZATION OF DEITY

THE DECENTRALIZATION OF DEITY. If you believe in decentralized bottom-up organic systems, and make an opposition between naturalistic systems and organized hierarchical ones, then take a fresh look at ancient paganism, and compare it to both monotheism or atheism. Paganism is about the decentralization and diversification of deity; monotheism strives for some purity and concentration, […]

Friends, there is a drawing for the Fat Tony Workshop in October…

Friends, there is a drawing for the Fat Tony Workshop in October. (Note it is nonprofit (for me), I am doing it for the fun and to help Complex Systems.) NECSI Executive Education: Antifragility | NECSINew England Complex Systems Institute 238 Main Street Suite 319, Cambridge, MA 02142 Phone: 617-547-4100 Fax: 617-661-7711 via Friends, there […]

The best, cheapest, most democratic, most possibly natural exercise …

The best, cheapest, most democratic, most possibly natural exercise (maximally antifragile): a high-dimentional (daily) walk. No two steps will ever be the same. No smooth surfaces. You concentrate naturally. No music. No shoes that fit like a cast and prevent you from “feeling” the terrain (vibrams, instead). You do better going fast, in a state […]

HOW TO MAXIMIZE SUBSTANCE…

HOW TO MAXIMIZE SUBSTANCE. Academic production is now up to 99% housekeeping, chickens**t, dealing with referees and perfecting commas, marketing, and only 1% substance. So trying the exact opposite with the following mode; wrote a paper, the shortest possible one on the idea. Put on FB here for 24 hours for crowdsourcing correction (Carl Fakhry […]

Constantine Sandis and I have completed The Skin in the Game Paper…

Constantine Sandis and I have completed The Skin in the Game Paper, with derivations. Nothing new for the members here but we placed it withing the philosophical traditions, particularly in what relates to moral luck. And we added mathematics to balance philosophy, with 2 (small) mistakes that Carl Fakhry Kimos (or another member here) will […]