Open Thread 165
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Metadata
- Published: March 29, 2021
- Source: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-165
- Document ID:
2021-03-29_open-thread-165_full
Category Map
Books
- Antifragile (3 mentions)
Events
- Dutch election (1 mentions)
People
- Nassim Taleb (11 mentions)
- Guy Beaujouan (2 mentions)
- Vosmyorka (2 mentions)
Places
- Europe (68 mentions)
Full Primary Source Text
This is the weekly visible open thread. Odd-numbered open threads will be no-politics, even-numbered threads will be politics-allowed. This one is odd-numbered, so be careful. Otherwise, post about anything else you want. Also: 1: Comment of the week is Vosmyorka describing political polarization (or lack thereof) in the most recent Dutch election. 2: In my review of Antifragile , I repeated Nassim Taleb’s claim, sourced to history Guy Beaujouan, that “before the thirteenth century no more than five persons in the whole of Europe knew how to perform a division”. Here’s some discussion on whether that’s true.