Tuesday, October 1, 2019

A Trader in Essences

Concepts have essences.

To gain happiness, you must become a trader in essences.

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Alternatives to anti-fragile are more like interesting competing economical memes or narratives, concepts if you will:
  1. Primary: Anti-fragile says you will be rewarded if you take some risk but never in excess, and only with caution.
  2. Brokenality (my concept) says if you have a better paradigm it usually doesn't matter if the previous paradigm is broken.
  3. Paradigmatics says we should always choose a mixture of the best paradigms unless there is one that is perfect or if there is a better alternative to paradigms.
  4. Modism says what matters must be a modality, or there must be an alternative.
  5. Applicationism says there may be a variety of tools, and each should be used effectively on its own terms unless there is a problem with the tool or the overall picture. The tools are assumed to be aesthetically-pleasing.
  6. Ideal functionism says if something doesn't work perfectly it is not a perfect function. This can have implications like not functional and a priority for perfection.
  7. Concept sniping says an idea that is unfairly temporarily made better really is better, but only with proper understanding, and usually only from one angle. These can be collected, and the ultimate coherent picture is fair. So, expect punishment with concept sniping, since any unbalanced perspective will be effectively opposed cleverly or not.
  8. Nathan Coppedge Curve: If the world is full of geniuses, doing something unexpected may require breaking norms, even intelligent ones. If economics depends on the unpredictable, geniuses may be fools. Although this doesn't make one a genius of their type, it might not make one an absolute fool, which in absolute terms is highly important. Foolish geniuses can be intelligent with absolutes. Economics that depends on disruption tends to have a kind of war of absolutes. That is the stupidity, the solution to which does not always look intelligent at first.
---Alternatives to Anti-Fragile

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