{"id":4441,"date":"2012-05-11T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T20:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2012-05-11T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T20:21:11","slug":"hungry-donkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/hungry-donkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Donkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continues on NNT&#8217;s Facebook see link below.<\/p>\n<p>Hungry Donkeys<br \/>So far we argued that preventing randomness in an antifragile system is not always a good idea. Let us now look at the situation in which adding randomness has been a standard operating method, as the needed fuel for an antifragile system permanently hungry for it.A donkey equally hungry and thirsty caught at equal distance between food and water would unavoidably die of either hunger or thirst. But he can be saved thanks to a random nudge, one way or another. This metaphor is named Buridan\u2019s donkey after the medieval philosopher Jean de Buridan who \u2014among other, very complicated things \u2014introduced the thought experiment. When some systems are caught in a dangerous impasse randomness and only randomness can unlock them away from it. You can see here that absence of randomness equals guaranteed death&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150831233138375&amp;id=13012333374\">Hungry Donkeys So&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continues on NNT&#8217;s Facebook see link below. Hungry DonkeysSo far we argued that preventing randomness in an antifragile system is not always a good idea. Let us now look at the situation in which adding randomness has been a standard operating method, as the needed fuel for an antifragile system permanently hungry for it.A donkey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[514,512,513],"class_list":["post-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-alessandro-pluchino","tag-buridans-donkey","tag-stochastic-resonance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441","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=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4442,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions\/4442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}