expiredphoinix | Staff posted Jul 10, 2022 07:10 AM
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expiredphoinix | Staff posted Jul 10, 2022 07:10 AM
The Black Swan (2nd Ed.): The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Kindle eBook)
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His whole thing seems to be "antifragility", gaining from disorder rather than controlling it. It's more sane and refined than the old "Take the warning labels of and let Darwin do his work" or "We have it too easy, get rid of all this modern tech making us weak", but it still echoes some of the same issues.
While he does point out very real issues in the medical field, and many other things mainstream culture doesn't address, he doesn't really seem to appreciate what the slow, careful, locked down academic method has gotten us. Lone geniuses experimenting got us things like steam engines and light bulbs, truly modern tech is only possible because tens of thousands of people can work on things too big for any one man to understand in a whole lifetime.
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His whole thing seems to be "antifragility", gaining from disorder rather than controlling it. It's more sane and refined than the old "Take the warning labels of and let Darwin do his work" or "We have it too easy, get rid of all this modern tech making us weak", but it still echoes some of the same issues.
While he does point out very real issues in the medical field, and many other things mainstream culture doesn't address, he doesn't really seem to appreciate what the slow, careful, locked down academic method has gotten us. Lone geniuses experimenting got us things like steam engines and light bulbs, truly modern tech is only possible because tens of thousands of people can work on things too big for any one man to understand in a whole lifetime.
For the common bloke, it's like listening to that quirky uncle than blabs on forever about everything random in life - cute for a few minutes until better things in life take over one's attention.
Anyways, I'd just overdrive/libby app it free from a library given how dated it is in parts. (AI/ML has far advanced the ability to model and predict in many fields today vs the old days he grew up in without.)
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