Quotes About Consequences

Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.

This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty.

Scars signal skin in the game.

It is much more immoral to claim virtue without fully living with its direct consequences.

Please, don't drive a school bus blindfolded.

Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.

Under opacity and in the newfound complexity of the world, people can hide risks and hurt others, with the law incapable of catching them. Iatrogenics has both delayed and invisible consequences. It is hard to see causal links, to fully understand what's going on. Under such epistemic limitations, skin in the game is the only true mitigator of fragility.

avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.

This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty. Much

We see the obvious and visible consequences, not the invisible and less obvious ones. Yet those unseen consequences.., generally are more meaningful.

Rank beliefs not by their plausibility but by how much harm they might cause

Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

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Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.

A king, angry at his son, swore that he would crush him with a large stone.

The policies we need to make decisions on should depend far more on the range of possible outcomes than on the expected final number. I

Simply, humans should not be given explosive toys (like atomic bombs, financial derivatives, or tools to create life).

If both the positive and the negative consequences of an action fell on its author, our learning would be fast. But often an action's positive consequences benefit only its author, since they are visible, while the negative consequences, being invisible, apply to others, with a net cost to society.

The consequences are not trivial: It means that rational thinking has little, very little, to do with risk avoidance. Much of what rational thinking seems to do is rationalize one's actions by fitting some logic to them.

it is about the distortions of symmetry and reciprocity in life: if you have the rewards, you must also get some of the risks— not let others pay the price of your mistakes. If you inflict risk onto others and they are harmed, you need to pay some price for it.

the more lethal the risks, the less visible they will be, since the severely victimized are likely to be eliminated from the evidence. The

you cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. Actually, you cannot separate anything from contact with the ground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the game—having an exposure to the real world, and paying a price for its consequences

Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.