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mike garrigan's avatar

Is repeatability a metric of success?

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Xianyang City Bureaucrat's avatar

I guess I'd say yes, though if you're dealing with models that display emergent properties you need to be really specific about what you're expecting to repeat and in which ways, since every run through will differ significantly.

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Legatvs Silanvs's avatar

In the Joe Sachs translation of Aristotle, his ethics can be reduced into virtue/excellence as proper decision making. It takes a combination of theory and experience to make decisions properly - and here, instead of a "habit" or a "middle path", excellence for Aristotle is an active condition of making the right choices for appropriate situations.

His ethics extend to his politics: a city (which for Aristotle only has the adequate size for human flourishing)'s purpose is to make its citizens virtuous, not just through extraneous traits like having a class of second class citizens do merchantry and crafts (among other things), but also in passing down received wisdom and derived knowledge to next generations. His feasibly ideal city is supposed to be antifragile (as he treats in the book), but as he notes, barely any city lives up to that feasible ideal.

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