{"id":9086,"date":"2019-12-30T21:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T05:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=9086"},"modified":"2019-12-30T21:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T05:32:45","slug":"taleb-the-philosopher-firstthings-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/taleb-the-philosopher-firstthings-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Taleb the Philosopher | Firstthings.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By this point, Taleb has come to view all three works as composing a unified project, which he calls <em>Incerto<\/em>, about \u201cdecision making under uncertainty.\u201d The central idea of <em>Antifragile<\/em> is that risk, volatility, or turbulence is in many cases not to be feared and avoided, but desired and sought. Taleb claims to have identified a new concept: Whereas fragile things are harmed by shocks, and robust things are resilient or unharmed, what is <em>antifragile<\/em> actually benefits from shocks. A related concept and characteristic Talebism: What is \u201cLindy\u201d is likely to survive a long time because it has already survived a long time\u2014named after a \u00adManhattan restaurant where actors observed the phenomenon in \u00adBroadway runs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2019\/02\/taleb-the-philosopher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2019\/02\/taleb-the-philosopher<\/a><br \/>\nHattip Dave Lull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By this point, Taleb has come to view all three works as composing a unified project, which he calls Incerto, about \u201cdecision making under uncertainty.\u201d The central idea of Antifragile is that risk, volatility, or turbulence is in many cases not to be feared and avoided, but desired and sought. Taleb claims to have identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086","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=9086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9090,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions\/9090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}