Narrative Self Café V9: The NART of War (Towards Antifragile Economies)

Sequel to Narrative Self Café V8: The Upside of Idiocy

I. Opening Monologue — Taleb Enters (Dry, Unimpressed)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(looking at the audience, not smiling)

Welcome. If you came here to hear how to make society stable, you’re in the wrong room.
Stability is what you get right before you blow up.

Today’s topic is NART — No-Notice Adversarial Readiness Testing.
It’s what armies do when they’re serious.
What engineers do when they don’t want to be paged at 3 a.m.
And what economists avoid because it hurts their feelings.