While you are right, this completely misses the point Taleb is making. The earthquake thing is just an analogy to explain the principle of non-linearity. Yes, t

While you are right, this completely misses the point Taleb is making. The earthquake thing is just an analogy to explain the principle of non-linearity. Yes, the analogy is bad because the richter scale is logarithmic, but the principle it illustrates is still perfectly valid and applicable to the discussion at hand.