[ExI] on inflation in long term thinking

[Lee Corbin]

Russell wrote


> On 8/6/07, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
>> Your passage wasn't very clear to me.  Mind elaborating on
>> the "trap" you were in; e.g., the circumstances or examples?
> 
> I elaborated awhile ago over on SL4:
> http://sl4.org/archive/0608/15606.html
> 
>> Argh.  I do *not* recommend that particular, extremely economically
>> ignorant story, or Marshall  Brain's silly essays---hope no one thought I did.
> 
> The Black Swan is economically ignorant? I thought some parts were
> skippable, but there were also some useful insights.

No, I meant "Robotic Nation", a story by Marshall Brain.  On the 
contrary, what I read of Taleb's "Black Swan" looked very good.

Lee