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ba398d9 ...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. internet-addiction modern-values modernity-is-a-sickness robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness nerdiness nerds fragility nerd modernity Nassim Nicholas Taleb