Friends, I need help. Looking for a list of IATROGENICS -Humans causing problems trying to “improve” things (insults to mother nature).
So fat I have 1) TRANS FATS (to replace saturated fats turned out to have killed legions of people), 2) SYNTHETIC MOTHER MILK, 3) CARBS, 4) STATINS (kills you if you are not sick), 5) THERMAL REGULATION, etc.
Sorry accidentally removed post [while trying to remove a post saying “i like your books” as this is not a self-promotion/testimonial site]; please repost)
(Apollonian-Dionysian: Many attribute the idea of “creative destruction” to the economist Joseph Schumpeter (not wondering how something deep can come out of an economist), while the more erudite source it to the great K Marx, it is indeed Nietzsche who was first to … with reference to the Dionysian: “creatively destructive” & “destructively creative”. Nietzsche indeed figured out antifragility.
The problem with both institutions and knowledge is that they are more easily created than destroyed.
Added to note 142 : A simple example of probabilistic perturbation leading to massive computational differences to show why there is no such thing as measurable uncertainty.
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm
