Money and Finance
- Harari On Hindsight...
From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: "...the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another…In fact, the people who knew the period best – those alive at the...
- James Altucher Interviews Nassim Taleb
Link to: Ep. 45 Nassim Taleb: Why You Should Embrace Uncertainty This week, Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, joins The James Altucher Show to talk about technology and how different systems handle disorder. Just...
- Steven Pinker On Charlie Rose
Link to: Steven Pinker on Charlie Rose ……………….. Related previous posts: The Better Angels of our Nature Authors@Google: Steven Pinker Steven Pinker profile Related book: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined ...
- The Better Angels Of Our Nature
The Better Angels of our Nature from The RSA on Vimeo..................... Related book: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has DeclinedRelated previous post: Authors@Google: Steven Pinker ...
- Steven Pinker Profile
Steven Pinker was a 15-year-old anarchist. He didn’t think people needed a police force to keep the peace. Governments caused the very problems they were supposed to solve. Besides, it was 1969, said Dr. Pinker, who is now a 57-year-old psychologist...
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Nassim Taleb quote
A little different take than Steven Pinker's case, as I understand it, in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature.
“Some people have fallen for the naive turkey-style belief that the world is getting safer and safer, and of course they naively attribute it to the holy “state” (though bottom-up Switzerland has about the lowest rate of violence of any place on the planet). It is exactly like saying that nuclear bombs are safer because they explode less often. The world is subjected to fewer and fewer acts of violence, while wars have the potential to be more criminal….When we look at risks in Extremistan, we don’t look at evidence (evidence comes too late), we look at potential damage: never has the world been more prone to more damage; never. It is hard to explain to naive data-driven people that risk is in the future, not in the past.” –Nassim Taleb, Antifragile
“Some people have fallen for the naive turkey-style belief that the world is getting safer and safer, and of course they naively attribute it to the holy “state” (though bottom-up Switzerland has about the lowest rate of violence of any place on the planet). It is exactly like saying that nuclear bombs are safer because they explode less often. The world is subjected to fewer and fewer acts of violence, while wars have the potential to be more criminal….When we look at risks in Extremistan, we don’t look at evidence (evidence comes too late), we look at potential damage: never has the world been more prone to more damage; never. It is hard to explain to naive data-driven people that risk is in the future, not in the past.” –Nassim Taleb, Antifragile
- Harari On Hindsight...
From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: "...the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another…In fact, the people who knew the period best – those alive at the...
- James Altucher Interviews Nassim Taleb
Link to: Ep. 45 Nassim Taleb: Why You Should Embrace Uncertainty This week, Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, joins The James Altucher Show to talk about technology and how different systems handle disorder. Just...
- Steven Pinker On Charlie Rose
Link to: Steven Pinker on Charlie Rose ……………….. Related previous posts: The Better Angels of our Nature Authors@Google: Steven Pinker Steven Pinker profile Related book: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined ...
- The Better Angels Of Our Nature
The Better Angels of our Nature from The RSA on Vimeo..................... Related book: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has DeclinedRelated previous post: Authors@Google: Steven Pinker ...
- Steven Pinker Profile
Steven Pinker was a 15-year-old anarchist. He didn’t think people needed a police force to keep the peace. Governments caused the very problems they were supposed to solve. Besides, it was 1969, said Dr. Pinker, who is now a 57-year-old psychologist...