🤔 If
a) crises follow a power law in magnitude then largest crises can on average never be usefully in living memory, and if
b) most knowledge is tacit it can’t be in recorded memory either
So most lessons about rare crises have to be relearned the hard way each time
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I believe that all recurring human-caused crises are caused by everyone forgetting about the last time it happened, or everyone who remembers gets too old / dies.
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I like formulation of how culture encodes the lessons in tradition. The story of Passover is a story most never understand. Until they need to
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Neil Gaiman has a bit about throwing virgins in volcanos and how folk tales encode vital cross generational memory through the power of narrative. But I doubt that helps us here.
I best get back to singing nursery rhymes with my daughter. 'Ring a ring a roses...







