I refer to Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Black Swan events. Or fire insurance. Yes, it probably is wasted. However, that is the point: employ a few (few!) neurons o

I refer to Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Black Swan events. Or fire insurance. Yes, it probably is wasted. However, that is the point: employ a few (few!) neurons on looking out for the "crazy", the unlikely, the improbable. Hope that it's all wasted. But just like with insurance, when it is wasted you say "Thank god" (I'm an atheist but I can't think of an atheist phrase :-) ), you don't say "what a waste" (that I paid for insurance). You can be sure you have (quite) a number of neurons that if you knew what they do would think are "waste". Also, the point is for you as someone not into that stuff to ignore them. Not like some of my Facebook friends (former colleagues) who seem to spend most of their day hunting for what they think are examples of the most stupid humanity can create. I'm not so sure that it isn't them who really are stupid. If they just ignored "crazy", nobody would even know such people exist. Instead more people seem intent on bringing the most obscure ideas and idiocies some human somewhere developed to the light that it would otherwise never even have.