{"id":5287,"date":"2012-12-15T19:46:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T03:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2012-12-15T19:46:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T03:46:23","slug":"nassim-taleb-on-the-importance-of-embracing-unpredictable-events-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/nassim-taleb-on-the-importance-of-embracing-unpredictable-events-south-china-morning-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Taleb on the importance of embracing unpredictable events | South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><strong>You clearly don&#8217;t think the system of academic education produces much of use. What would you put in its place?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Funding and research should go to the jockey, not the horse &#8211; to individuals, rather than to universities that don&#8217;t produce anything other than to justify their own existence. It&#8217;s quite simple: people don&#8217;t realise that most technology didn&#8217;t come from academic research. We can show mathematically that trial and error is 10 times more effective than knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/books\/article\/1105386\/nassim-taleb-importance-embracing-unpredictable-events\">Nassim Taleb on the importance of embracing unpredictable events | South China Morning Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You clearly don&#8217;t think the system of academic education produces much of use. What would you put in its place? Funding and research should go to the jockey, not the horse &#8211; to individuals, rather than to universities that don&#8217;t produce anything other than to justify their own existence. It&#8217;s quite simple: people don&#8217;t realise [&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-5287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287","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=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5289,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions\/5289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}