Most feed their obsessions by trying to get rid of them.
Let us return to the distinction between Thalesian and Aristotelian for a minute and look at evolution from the following point of view. The frequency, i.e., how often someone is right is largely irre...
First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
At the limit, you can decide whether to be (relatively) poor, but free of your time, or rich but as dependent as a slave.
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
Stability is not good for the economy: firms become very weak during long periods of steady prosperity devoid of setbacks, and hidden vulnerabilities accumulate silently under the surface—so delaying...
There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part o...
There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
The quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome.
The consequences are not trivial: It means that rational thinking has little, very little, to do with risk avoidance. Much of what rational thinking seems to do is rationalize one’s actions by fitting...
The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer was the soccer mom [helicopter parent]….They try to eliminate...
My idea is that not only are some scientific results useless in real life, because they underestimate the impact of the highly improbable (or lead us to ignore it), but that many of them may be actual...
Further, the problem is not just that Mithridatization and hormesis can be known in (some) medical circles and missed in other applications such as socioeconomic life. Even within medicine, some get i...
Asta este, probabil, adevărata încredere în sine: abilitatea de a privi lumea fără a simți nevoia să găsim semne care să ne măgulească.
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
We are the empirical decision makers who hold that uncertainty is our discipline, and that understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human purs...
There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the me...
The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.
The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse.
The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer was the soccer mom….Soccer moms try to eliminate the trial and...