{"id":4414,"date":"2012-05-04T11:31:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2012-05-04T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:34:59","slug":"domain-dependence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/domain-dependence\/","title":{"rendered":"DOMAIN DEPENDENCE&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>DOMAIN DEPENDENCE and BLINDNESS TO ANTIFRAGILITY<br \/>The same doctor might recommend exercise so you \u201cget tougher\u201d, and a few minutes later write a prescription for antibiotics in response to a trivial infection so you \u201cdon\u2019t get sick\u201d.Imagine someone capable in learning languages, but unable to transfer concepts from one tongue to another, so he would need to relearn \u201cchair\u201d or \u201clove\u201d, or \u201capple pie\u201d every time he acquires a new language. He would not recognize \u201chouse\u201d (English) and \u201ccasa\u201d (Spanish) or \u201cbeyt\u201d Semitic. We are all, in a way, handicapped in a similar way, unable to recognize ideas when presented in a different contexts. It is as if we were doomed to be fooled by the most possibly superficial part of things, the packaging, the gift-wrapping paper around the object. This is why we don\u2019t see antifragility in places that are obvious, too obvious.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150761008303375&amp;id=13012333374\">DOMAIN DEPENDENCE&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOMAIN DEPENDENCE and BLINDNESS TO ANTIFRAGILITYThe same doctor might recommend exercise so you \u201cget tougher\u201d, and a few minutes later write a prescription for antibiotics in response to a trivial infection so you \u201cdon\u2019t get sick\u201d.Imagine someone capable in learning languages, but unable to transfer concepts from one tongue to another, so he would need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[501],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-domain-dependence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}