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#395: Skin in the Game

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

The Role of Rationality in Survival

In the book, you talk about how religion makes people or communities of people anti fragile. How so? I spent a lot of time studying examining and trying to figure out what rationality means. The central one is the idea of rationality in survival. You see, you don't know ex ante what is rational. It's not my reasoning. And the world is too complex. So that's the idea of rules that don't seem to make sense to me, but may make sense from a ruin standpoint.

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