November 10th, 2010 / 5:11 pm
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Mess Section, anti-fragile edition

Nassim Taleb has posted a table illustrating his concepts of fragility, robustness & anti-fragility. Context: “This seems quite a universal traits of languages (I tried Mediterranean, classical, and Semitic languages),where the notion of antifragility is totally absent.” :: Noah Cicero gives a short history of philosophy. :: Jonathon Keats tries to make porn for God. :: Sententia #3 wants novel pitches/excerpts. :: gifs get subtle. :: “I often heard [D.W. Griffith] say that he would rather have written one page of Leaves of Grass than to have made all the movies for which he received world acclaim.”

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9 Comments

  1. November 10th, 2010 / 9:59 pm jereme_dean—

      word. picking up the swan this weekend.

  2. November 11th, 2010 / 1:58 am deadgod—

      a triad under the influence of The Triad

      Nervous System:

      Fragile: registers sensation concavely

      Robust: flexes convexly in reaction to sensation

      Antifragile: incorporates sensation

  3. November 11th, 2010 / 5:25 am arrqué—

      fragile: antifragile

      robust: fragile

      antifragile: robust

  4. November 11th, 2010 / 7:02 am mimi—

      I gotta say, Noah Cicero certainly has a way with words.

  5. November 11th, 2010 / 7:20 am Janey Smith—

      Jonathon Keats turns me on.

  6. November 11th, 2010 / 1:24 pm Eric Beeny—

      I like Noah’s post, and Keats’ answers to those questions. Very funny…

  7. November 11th, 2010 / 4:24 pm Adam Robinson—

      WOW. Those subtle gifs maybe more than anything else seem to me to be the best usage of the Internet — how they look like photos and then move has unsettled me more science fictionally than maybe anything else I’ve ever seen.

  8. November 12th, 2010 / 11:22 pm Ryan W. Bradley—

      thanks for spreading the word on Sententia 3, Ken!

  9. December 17th, 2010 / 5:35 am isomorphisms—

      I never understand Taleb’s tables. They just seem like random taxonomies. Here is a table that makes sense to me:
      ———————–
      | MEGALOMANIACS |
      |Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
      ————————