TALEB AND DOOLITTLE ( by James Augustus Berens ) The problem: the scalability/sc

TALEB AND DOOLITTLE

( by James Augustus Berens )

The problem: the scalability/scope of cognition

Methodology in identifying the problem: Causative (Curt) vs Mathematical (Taleb)

Solution:

Curt

Anglo-empirical (tests/criticism + warranty)

Force transactions to be fully informed, productive, warrantied, and voluntary. (This applies to information production as much as it does to trade)

Vs

Taleeb

Aphoristic/Institutionalized Skepticism

As far as I can tell, Taleeb understands the danger (negative externalities) of Scientism (pseudoscience), but he isn’t trying to reform the (social) sciences so that we can produce and act on warrantied information. Instead he wants to make institutions “idiot proof”/antifragile. He advocates implementing skin-in-the-game policies because he has skepticism of our ability to calculate at modern scale (who can blame him?), but he knows that will intuit their self-interest and act accordingly.

In a way he is arguing that we create law so that we have a pre-modern experience and act-accordingly. This can be observed not only in his politics, but also in his diet and exercise program. Like many people on the right, he wants to go back to what we have observed to work.