@St_Rev I don’t know… How many professional chemists got serious about doing it at home before university? Doubt that was common, but unsure
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@Meaningness Feynman got his start fooling around with tube radios and the like, IIRC. Now it's all solid-state black boxes.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness Black-boxification improves efficiency but there's a huge resilience downside, I think.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Mid-century automobiles kept limping along for 50 years. A similar political shock today and you'd have nothing after 10 years.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness i.e. in the long run the once-in-a-century or once-in-a-millenium events account for most of the real cumulative damage.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@St_Rev Did you end up reading it? Your take on Kegan's developmental stages 3, 4, 5 maps well to robust, fragile, antifragile.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@othercriteria @St_Rev Not yet… there seemed to be a lot of overlap with Fooled By Randomeness. I’d like to read a content diff.
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@Meaningness@St_Rev Wouldn't surprise me. I haven't read the others, so I went with his most recent braindump/snapshot.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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