{"id":6217,"date":"2013-10-07T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T04:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2013-10-07T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T04:07:08","slug":"experience-is-not-much-of-a-teacher-it-is-rather-a-continuous-exit-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/experience-is-not-much-of-a-teacher-it-is-rather-a-continuous-exit-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience is not much of a teacher; it is, rather, a continuous exit exam…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Experience is not much of a teacher; it is, rather, a continuous exit exam. For we are not very good at “learning” from events.<\/p>\n

– You are told that experience is accumulated knowledge when it is largely a survival filter, a fitness test. Those we call “experienced” are simply those who had the traits that allowed them to survive in a given function in order to be able do it for a long time: what we call on this forum absence of fragility.<\/p>\n

– This confusion is similar to mistaking the Lamarckian for the Darwinian. There is some direct learning (Lamarckian) in experience, but it has to coexist with a stiff selection test.<\/p>\n

– The consequence is that “experienced” people should limit their teaching to avoidance of fragility.<\/p>\n

– And our preferences show that we get the point (intuitively): we tend worship old people when they are successful, and despise (and neglect) them when they are ordinary. Yet both have, technically, the same “experience”.<\/p>\n

[VIA NEGATIVA, LINDY EFFECT, SKIN IN THE GAME]<\/p>\n

–Please read carefully before commenting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Experience is not much of a teacher; it is, rather, a continuous exit exam. For we are not very good at “learning” from events. – You are told that experience is accumulated knowledge when it is largely a survival filter, a fitness test. Those we call “experienced” are simply those who had the traits that […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217","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=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6219,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}