Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 Posted in Life, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | No Comments »

My latest studies in history have been in the topic of slavery in the United States. One fascinating aspect about this era concerns white society in the South in which only one-fourth of the population actually owned slaves; the other ...

Taleb’s “Triplet of Opacity”

Sunday, July 19th, 2009 Posted in Philosophy | No Comments »

The "Triplet of Opacity": Illusion of Understanding- everyone thinks they know what is going on in a world that is more complicated (or random) than they realize. Retrospective Distortion- We can assess matters only after the fact (like a rear-view mirror); history ...