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I think of hedgehogs over long time horizons as people with a pet theory for which they seek confirmation/disconfirmation over time, with a scientific mindset of quality dependent on talent ranging from crackpot to effective. INTJs trying to build a theory of everything for eg
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So I think ergodicity applies more to foxes than hedgehogs here, because hedgehogs have a more totalizing/systematizing filter that creates a kind of tunnel vision. Taleb has elements of both hedgehog and fox turtleness.
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If the challenge is perfectly ergodic, the fox (n pots over time t) and hedgehog (1 great pot in time t) strategy should be equivalent for effective hedgehogs (pursuing open-ended enough, ie not cactus) and effective foxes (good curation/pattern recognition, ie not weasels)
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