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The UK’s Coronavirus Policy / Corporate Socialism

Saturday, March 28, 2020

The UK’s coronavirus policy may sound scientific. It isn’t  (The Guardian) Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Yaneer Bar-Yam Wed 25 Mar 2020 Our research did not use any complicated model with a vast number of variables, no more than someone watching an avalanche heading in their direction calls for complicated statistical models to see if they […]

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Bitcoin – It may fail but we now know how to do it | Medium

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Bitcoin – It may fail but we now know how to do it Which is why Bitcoin is an excellent idea. It fulfills the needs of the complex system, not because it is a cryptocurrency, but precisely because it has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the […]

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An Expert Called Lindy | Medium

Saturday, January 14, 2017

An Expert Called Lindy Lindy is a deli in New York, now a tourist trap, that proudly claims to be famous for its cheesecake, but in fact has been known for the fifty or so years of interpretation by physicists and mathematicians of the heuristic that developed there. Actors who hung out there gossiping about […]

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We Don’t Know What We Are Talking About When We talk about Religion | Medium

Saturday, August 27, 2016

We Don’t Know What We Are Talking About When We talk about Religion People rarely mean the same thing when they say “religion”, nor do they realize that they don’t mean the same thing. For early Jews and Muslims, religion was law. Din means law in Hebrew and religion in Arabic. For early Jews, religion […]

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Genetically Modified Organisms Risk Global Ruin, Says Black Swan Author — The Physics arXiv Blog

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Taleb and co focus on two examples. The first is nuclear energy. They point out that many people are justifiably concerned about the risk associated with nuclear energy. Scientists are well aware of the harm that can be caused by radiation release, core meltdown and the disposal of radioactive waste and these risks have been […]

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