Alas, being forced to write this note 142
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Opacity
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(A philosophical notebook. I only put stuff here from my work in progresss. Once again, I beg you to avoid sending me the list of typos. Not quite my book… but close. And I am not so much anti-Platonic: I am mostly against “Platonicity” which is being a sucker for a Platonic form, at the cost
I sent 18 emails last week. Next week, 14. Ideally, 10.
JUMPS DO NOT ALWAYS NEED ENERGY.
For antifragile matters in the nonphysical (i.e., socio-economic) domain, Thom’s Catastrophe Theory does not make a difference. What matters is convexity or concavity, period.
This graph gives the intuition behind my need to separate my idea of antifragility from conventional physics. Social science is a complete different animal.
[Removed my last post wishing Saudis rioters good luck (for attempt at “day of rage” etc.) & posts that that have perishable nature to them: (can be read next year (or next decade) without any loss of relevance). Everything I post (write, publish) need to meet the nonperishability criterion.]
قلبي معكم
My thoughts are with the Saudi protesters tomorrow.