Chris Williamson

And that means that when it happens, I'll be ready.

You know, there's a,

It's a really strange comment on how humans' brains work that we would rather imagine a catastrophe than deal with uncertainty.

Yes.

You think about it as thinking in superpositions.

People would rather collapse the superposition down into something that maybe even breaks the laws of physics.

Your dead grandma comes back from the grave to tell you off for this thing that you did.

There's entire supernatural shits going on.

That's what you would rather...

Yeah, it's a kind of fragility to need a lot of certainty.

Because what you're saying is, I can't deal with something that I can't anticipate.

I don't have enough robustness in my system.

If something happens that I haven't planned for,

The only way that I can survive the future is if I've already prepared for it.

And that's the opposite of robustness or the best anti-fragility.

Look at COVID.

Now, COVID...

Everybody's lives during COVID basically forked into one of two directions.

People either went way off the rails or people's lives got stupendously better.

But that's it.