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These are contextless gnomic utterances, which are not prima facie uncontroversial and therefore mostly useless to us. Why should we care? We want reasoning her
by triplesec 12y ago
These are contextless gnomic utterances, which are not prima facie uncontroversial and therefore mostly useless to us. Why should we care? We want reasoning here surely, and perhaps some supporting data rather than a set of rules from somebody with financial acumen but it seems limited social insight. I suspect this author Mr Taleb has an ego of gargantuan proportions.
- read 12y agoOperating with partial context is not only part of real life, but also a branch of mathematical logic called computability theory. That's far from useless. We should also care because social insight often comes from relative comparisons. They let us compare things without having precise data. For example, people growing indignant is often a sign they don't understand a topic well, which is generally true without knowing the particular person involved. One of my favorites from this list is the following, which is also supported by research on vulnerability[1]: It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness. [1] - https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability