This economic argument from N.N.Taleb’s “Antifragile” nicely doubles as a research philosophy.
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interestingly, "known risk/cost" vs "unbound upside” thinking is why many bought bitcoin high- capped loss & unbound upside.
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you are probably aware, but statisticians appear to find Taleb's statistics knowledge to be uhm.. limited.
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Mr Poley could you document such remarks from stats? I am genuinely interested since can't find any . Thank you.
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"Antifragile" & "Black Swan" have deeply shaped my design philosophy, though I was predisposed due to my love of Popper.
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I really love Popper. Someone told me that latter pages of Antifragile oppose Popperian explanation-driven epistemology—will see!
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there's much to be said about the relationship of sound research philosophy in design process, but that requires > 140 chars
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