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> If the system was ergodic, what’s happening to the collective would also translate to all individuals. That's a definition of ergodicity I've never heard bef
by abhayhegde 3y ago
> If the system was ergodic, what’s happening to the collective would also translate to all individuals.
That's a definition of ergodicity I've never heard before. Ergodicity usually meant the phase space is fully occupied; in other words, a system tends to go through all possible configurations and sometimes irrespective of initial conditions.
- _aaed 3y agoAgreed, I think fallacy of composition is more appropriate here
- braza 3y agoNot the OP, but being a former follower from him he is a big fan of Nassim Taleb that made some changes in the ergodicity concept to the everyday life in some of his books[1]. [1] - https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf41029d3 https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf410...
- DVassallo 3y agoI’m using the definition from economics not physics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1vXAHGIpfc&feature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1vXAHGIpfc&feature=emb_logo
- marcosdumay 3y agoOn economics, one implies the other. (it's not true about every stochastic process, but for the ones important to economics, they do.) If your life experiences do not depend on the initial conditions, then people all have about the same chance of reaching them.