#incerto

[interna-bagunca]

"Por um instante, só um momentinho sequer, a minha mente te procurou no meio de todo aquele caos e eu me dei conta de estar sentada no lugar onde eu te deixei aquela última vez. Eu engoli em seco, dei um sorriso fraco, porra, você continua se fazendo presente até mesmo de maneira inconsciente."

[foreverblondie23]

[marcogiovenale]

26-27 marzo, napoli: "l'assurdo. l'incerto". laboratorio

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[bfield]

Nx Zero / Incerto

[cueneyt-tural]

Branchenübergreifend, größenübergreifend, grenzenübergreifend, generationenübergreifend begleitet das Team BlueRocks by lorenzotural.com sei

[apesoformythoughts]

«Antaeus was a giant, or rather a semi-giant of sorts, the literal son of Mother Earth, Gaea, and Poseidon, the god of the sea. He had a strange occupation, which consisted of forcing passersby in his country, (Greek) Libya, to wrestle; his thing was to pin his victims to the ground and crush them […]

Antaeus was deemed to be invincible, but there was a trick. He derived his strength from contact with his mother, Earth. Physically separated from contact with Earth, he lost all his powers. Hercules, as part of his twelve labors (in one variation of the tale), had for homework to whack Antaeus. He managed to lift him off the ground and terminated him by crushing him as his feet remained out of contact with his mamma.

We retain from this first vignette that, just like Antaeus, you cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. Actually, you cannot separate anything from contact with the ground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the game—having an exposure to the real world, and paying a price for its consequences, good or bad. The abrasions of your skin guide your learning and discovery, a mechanism of organic signaling, what the Greeks called pathemata mathemata ("guide your learning through pain," something mothers of young children know rather well) […] The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.»

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Skin in the Game

[apesoformythoughts]

“Skin in the Game is about four topics in one: a) uncertainty and the reliability of knowledge (both practical and scientific, assuming there is a difference), or in less polite words bull***t detection, b) symmetry in human affairs, that is, fairness, justice, responsibility, and reciprocity, c) information sharing in transactions, and d) rationality in complex systems and in the real world. That these four cannot be disentangled is something that is obvious when one has…skin in the game.

It is not just that skin in the game is necessary for fairness, commercial efficiency, and risk management: skin in the game is necessary to understand the world.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Skin in the Game

[apesoformythoughts]

You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragile