{"id":7860,"date":"2015-06-25T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2015-06-25T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:23:32","slug":"nietzsche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/nietzsche\/","title":{"rendered":"NIETZSCHE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div id=\"fb-root\">NIETZSCHE. I keep saying that there is no rigorous way to define rationality, except a risk-management one: &#8220;what prevents you or your species from extinction&#8221;, the foundation of our Precautionary Principle. All other definitions fail under rigorous formalizations and model expansion (for instance, see proofs in Chapter 6 in Silent Risk, most stuff called &#8220;irrational&#8221; by psychologists shows the psychologists to be Pinker-style verbalistic and ignorant of probability). We are, simply, very bad at knowing what &#8220;makes sense&#8221; ex ante; only time can do so thanks the Lindy effect (survival). This is the pillar behind *SKIN IN THE GAME*.<br \/>\nExcited to see Nietzche got the point!<br \/>\n&#8221; The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it: it is here, perhaps, that our new language sounds most strangely. The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life-preserving, species-preserving, perhaps species-rearing, and we are fundamentally inclined to maintain that the falsest opinions (to which the synthetic judgments a priori belong) &#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nIn Beyond Good and Evil, I, 4.<br \/>\nWhy was this burried? Because scholars do believe in such sentence, given the zeitgeist of &#8220;rationalization&#8221;.<br \/>\nI need to thank an anonymous person on twitter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/4363\/4363-h\/4363-h.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/4363\/4363-h\/4363-h.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The following is a reprint of the Helen Zimmern translation from German into English of &#8220;Beyond Good and Evil,&#8221; as published in The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (1909-1913). Some adaptations from the original text were made to format it into an e-text. Italics in the original book are capit\u2026<\/em><br \/>\n<em>gutenberg.org<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153134661528375&amp;id=13012333374\" data-width=\"500\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIETZSCHE. I keep saying that there is no rigorous way to define rationality, except a risk-management one: &#8220;what prevents you or your species from extinction&#8221;, the foundation of our Precautionary Principle. All other definitions fail under rigorous formalizations and model expansion (for instance, see proofs in Chapter 6 in Silent Risk, most stuff called &#8220;irrational&#8221; [&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":[983,460],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-nietzsche","tag-skin-in-the-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","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=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}