Re:The world should think better about catastrophic and exis...
by uoflcards22 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:04PM
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Just read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Black Swan" if you want more thinking about this topic..
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Re:The world should think better about catastrophic and exis...
by nemo44x on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:43PM
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And even better his concept of building anti-fragile systems. We can model things, predict things, etc - but in the end everything is more complex than we can know so as to appear random. We can’t predict what will happen but we can build systems that are anti-fragile, or robust at the minimum.