Saturday, April 30, 2011

Randomness and Anti-Fragility

"I think that an oil shock would be very good because we need to be trained to finally give up on these stupid cars. We have so many alternative sources, and people are too lazy. We need to enhance anti-fragility in this area. You can move from wild randomness into mild randomness by creating some. It is like hormesis: You give someone a little bit of poison and they get stronger. Economic life gets stronger not with bailouts, but with bankruptcies."
Nassim Taleb

An excellent read:
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2755

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