{"id":6947,"date":"2014-06-25T22:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T05:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6947"},"modified":"2014-06-25T22:29:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T05:29:39","slug":"some-confusion-about-the-silver-rule-as-i-presented-it-two-days-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/some-confusion-about-the-silver-rule-as-i-presented-it-two-days-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Some confusion about the silver rule as I presented it two days ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Some confusion about the silver rule as I presented it two days ago, to an extremely active and rich debate (if it is troll free it is because trolls and &#8220;uninformed&#8221; commentators are vanishing from this page thanks to systematic zapping).<\/p>\n<p>The Silver Rule Under Uncertainty requires *skin-in-the game*, so &#8220;you can only expose others to risks that you are taking yourself&#8221;, in the sense that &#8220;we cannot see adverse consequences of all actions, but should there be a negative one I will pay the price and will be eventually incapacitated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So there is an evolutionary argument that those who systematically cause harm to others, willingly or unwillingly, will eventually exit the system &#8211;along with their genes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I share the opacity of future consequences if there are potential benefits to me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Broadly seen, this is (probabilistic) SYMMETRY, the working title of the short book I am now working on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152287250318375&amp;id=13012333374\">Some confusion about the silver rule as I&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some confusion about the silver rule as I presented it two days ago, to an extremely active and rich debate (if it is troll free it is because trolls and &#8220;uninformed&#8221; commentators are vanishing from this page thanks to systematic zapping). The Silver Rule Under Uncertainty requires *skin-in-the game*, so &#8220;you can only expose others [&hellip;]<\/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":[799],"class_list":["post-6947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-silver-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947","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=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6949,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions\/6949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}