Unless you read history and are capable of learning from other peoples' mistakes.
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Read follow up tweets
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Worst crises become flood myths
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Best crises become Tower of Babel moments.
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@EricRWeinstein formulation of how culture encodes the lessons in tradition. The story of Passover is a story most never understand. Until they need to -
Sounds interesting. Do you have a link?
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It’s why institutional memory is so important.
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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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The lessons have been written in The Bible.
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Dammit, wrong article. Nvm
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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