{"id":8261,"date":"2016-02-06T19:11:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T03:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8261"},"modified":"2016-02-06T19:11:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T03:11:41","slug":"hippocratic-oath-trump-al-gore-necessary-proofs-heuristics-squid-ink-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/hippocratic-oath-trump-al-gore-necessary-proofs-heuristics-squid-ink-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippocratic Oath, Trump, Al Gore, Necessary Proofs, Heuristics, Squid Ink | Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>@nntaleb When someone is described as &#8220;likeable&#8221; by those who know him superficially, suspect a crook. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695970719549751296\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 6:02 AM &#8211; 6 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Many are conflating perfectionism (in one&#8217;s own work) for nitpicking ( misfocus in other people&#8217;s work). Kapish?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695356660307525634 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695356660307525634 <\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695716454524719104\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 1:11 PM &#8211; 5 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb The version of the Hippocratic oath oath in Arabic Medicine, translated from Syriac by Ibn Hunein. <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/29XZ6ndIJf\">pic.twitter.com\/29XZ6ndIJf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695705227908009985\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 12:27 PM &#8211; 5 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Does anyone know the Arabic Medicine equivalent of &#8220;first do no harm&#8221;? Thanks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695701187010629632\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 12:11 PM &#8211; 5 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Trump. Counter to impression. He actually wrote: protect your tail and let other risks take care of themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlumpTurkey\/status\/695653052225748993 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlumpTurkey\/status\/695653052225748993 <\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695653674790559744\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 9:02 AM &#8211; 5 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb I need to send Al Gore #Antifragile showing science grew historically in convex tinkerging undirected. #BSbusting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/algore\/status\/695380751898931200 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/algore\/status\/695380751898931200 <\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695638856209670145\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 8:03 AM &#8211; 5 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb How math in economics is BS and how to produce NECESSARY proofs using general never specific proba distributions. <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/KETz4UTHbc\">pic.twitter.com\/KETz4UTHbc<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695609772339494913\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 6:07 AM &#8211; 5 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb 2\/ Heuristics are functionally a different process as they prefer biases (i.e. slightly wrong) to noise (bias\/variance). Apply to religion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695601005665320961\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 5:32 AM &#8211; 5 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Approaching elections as Via Negativa: pick the candidate(s) you DON&#8217;T want. Mine: Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison &amp; Ted Cruz. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695557998996025344\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 2:42 AM &#8211; 5 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Heuristics as processes are slower hence much less noisy than equations. Hence Burkean, small increments. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/normonics\/status\/695432487447580672 \" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/normonics\/status\/695432487447580672 <\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695555287634354176\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 2:31 AM &#8211; 5 Feb 2016<\/p>\n<p>@nntaleb Back in NY, NY squid ink. <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/Im7thyuwfl\">pic.twitter.com\/Im7thyuwfl<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695391468454719488\" target=\"_blank\">Permalink<\/a> 3:40 PM &#8211; 4 Feb 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@nntaleb When someone is described as &#8220;likeable&#8221; by those who know him superficially, suspect a crook. Permalink 6:02 AM &#8211; 6 Feb 2016 @nntaleb Many are conflating perfectionism (in one&#8217;s own work) for nitpicking ( misfocus in other people&#8217;s work). Kapish? https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/695356660307525634 \u00a0 Permalink 1:11 PM &#8211; 5 Feb 2016 @nntaleb The version of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261","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=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8263,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions\/8263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}