{"id":6507,"date":"2014-01-15T15:23:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6507"},"modified":"2014-01-15T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T23:23:26","slug":"we-have-entered-an-era-where-competitive-social-scientists-create-sophistication-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/we-have-entered-an-era-where-competitive-social-scientists-create-sophistication-but\/","title":{"rendered":"We have entered an era where competitive social &#8220;scientists&#8221; create sophistication but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We have entered an era where competitive social &#8220;scientists&#8221; create sophistication but, as they are unchecked (no skin in the game), are increasingly incoherent with elementary notions. (I recall an established financial mathematician who failed my elementary quiz: what happens to the call price if the stock increases). Here is something far more severe.<\/p>\n<p>My answer to the Edge yearly question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/response-detail\/25401\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.edge.org\/response-detail\/25401<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151972940253375&amp;id=13012333374\">We have entered an era where competitive social&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have entered an era where competitive social &#8220;scientists&#8221; create sophistication but, as they are unchecked (no skin in the game), are increasingly incoherent with elementary notions. (I recall an established financial mathematician who failed my elementary quiz: what happens to the call price if the stock increases). Here is something far more severe. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507","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=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6509,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions\/6509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}