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Monthly Archives: February 2011

The Apophatic

The Apophatic: Pseudo-Dionysius the Aeropagite figured out that you can express the negative (what is not) in theology, not the positive. That seems to be present in Syriac Neoplatonism (but I need to dig for more. He was most certainly Syrian). He did…

The TRAGEDY OF THE APOPHATIC

The TRAGEDY OF THE APOPHATIC. Just to show that to nerds things that don't have a name don't appear to exist – & same problem 1) fail to understand uncertainty, 2) cannot connect dots, 3) cannot understand religion (what they don't see …

Charlie Rose Talks to Nassim Taleb – BusinessWeek

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HatTip to Dave Lull.
So what should they have done, as soon as they realized that there was too much risk in the system, that they had overleveraged? When Obama took power, he appointed people who were part of the system that caused …

(cont. Hint: consider Mill’s "would you rather be happy like a pig or unhappy like Socrates? "

(cont. Hint: consider Mill’s “would you rather be happy like a pig or unhappy like Socrates? ” (hence take a numbing drug or doing a lobotomy) before writing anything. Go through the exercise to realize that we are after is APOPHATIC and cannot be redu…

Happiness is the lowest form of human satisfaction.

Happiness is the lowest form of human satisfaction.