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ON GETTING MOTIVATION – OPTIMIZE FOR BITE-SIZED IMPROVEMENTSI can pinpoint very clearly the moment in which you lost motivation: the moment you stopped receiving clues that you were improving.(thread, 1/N)
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THE LINDY PRINCIPLE, GENERALIZEDThe Lindy Principle, from Taleb's "Antifragile", uses age to infer information about life expectancy.Here, I propose an intuitive justification and I explore practical uses other than estimating
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WHY IS ERGODICITY IMPORTANT? AN EXAMPLEMy cousin was born in a mountain village in the French Alps. Like many there, he learned to ski before reading.I am a good skier,
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A NON-BINARY VIEW OF ERGODICITYFrom a mathematical point of view, a model describing an activity is either ergodic or isn't.In real life, instead, it makes sense to describe ergodicity as
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FIVE PRINCIPLES TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN BEHAVIOR1/ First principle: we do not seek survival, but what feels like survival.This principle explains self-harm, addictions, toxic relationships, and so on. 2/ Of course,
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ON MANDATORY VACCINATIONI'm against mandatory vaccination for vaccines without long-term studies, but as many countries are talking about mandatory vaccination, a few considerations.(thread) 1/ There are not enough doses to
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THE DYNAMICS OF THE ANTIFRAGILE(thread)Where does the ability of the antifragile to benefit from volatility come from?Can this ability be increased?What policies increase it, and which decrease it?1/N 2/ Anything
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QUOTES FROM ORWELL'S 1984 REWRITTEN TO MATCH WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE MARKETS“But if money corrupts people, people can also corrupt money.”(thread, 1/N) “Every company has been bailed out, every junk
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A few comments.- First, read the article for full nuance.- Second, it’s terrible.That said, 89 workers died in meat processing in the US, about 15x the number in the EU
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