{"id":5187,"date":"2012-12-06T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2012-12-06T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:30:54","slug":"safety-in-danger-the-spectator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/safety-in-danger-the-spectator\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety in danger \u00bb The Spectator"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Well, fine. So far, this has a touch of Dr Faustus to it. The idea of harvesting uncertainty \u2014 the idea of gaining from our lack of knowledge \u2014 sounds like the Devil\u2019s work, or at the very least alchemy. But that\u2019s because we\u2019re so in love with linearity and certainty. And, says Taleb, our love of, and need for, this certainty is what\u2019s always getting us into trouble. We plan too much. We\u2019re too in love with controlling our environment. But just look at what happens when you try to control things. They go horribly wrong. Look at what happens when we try to get rid of germs. We get weaker, and they get stronger. It\u2019s the same when we try to control traffic with endless signs and instructions. When we take them away, there are fewer crashes. And when we try to manipulate risk out of the economy, we end up making it riskier.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/books\/8778191\/safety-in-danger\/\">Safety in danger \u00bb The Spectator<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, fine. So far, this has a touch of Dr Faustus to it. The idea of harvesting uncertainty \u2014 the idea of gaining from our lack of knowledge \u2014 sounds like the Devil\u2019s work, or at the very least alchemy. But that\u2019s because we\u2019re so in love with linearity and certainty. And, says Taleb, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187","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=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5188,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions\/5188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}