An edition of Bed of Procrustes
(2010)
The Bed of Procrustes
Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
1st ed.
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
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Table of Contents
Procrustes
Preludes
Counter narratives
Matters ontological
The sacred and the profane
Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism
Charming and less charming sucker problems
Theseus, or, living the Paleo life
The republic of letters
The universal and the particular
Fooled by randomness
Aesthetics
Ethics
Robustness and fragility
The ludic fallacy and domain dependence
Epistemology and subtractive knowledge
The scandal of prediction
Being a philosopher and managing to remain one
Economic life and other very vulgar subjects
The sage, the weak, and the magnificent
The implicit and the explicit
On the varieties of love and nonlove
The end
Postface.
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