Wednesday, December 3, 2008

dBlackSwan-33

In Extremistan, inequalities are such that one single observation can disproportionately impact the aggregate, or the total.
... Almost all social matters are from Extremistan. Another way to say it is that social quantities are informational, not physical: you cannot touch them. Money in a bank account is something important, but certainly not physical. As such it can take any value without necessitating the expenditure of energy. It is just a number!

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