Curation Labs
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Rebundling Humanity's Knowledge into Capital
Agent Skills by Curation Labs
Showing 102 vetted skills indexed across 1 GitHub repositories.
curation-labsl4-fat-tony-vs-socrates
Explores the tension between tacit practitioner knowledge and formal theoretical articulation.
curation-labsl3-epistemology_narrative-fallacy
Explains how post-hoc causal storytelling distorts perception of randomness across domains.
curation-labsl5-antifragile_fannie-mae-fragility-detection
Detect institutional fragility through concavity analysis of nonlinear response functions.
curation-labsl4-universalism-vs-tribalism
Analyzes the tension between universal ethical rules and local tribal obligations.
curation-labsl5-fooled-by-randomness_firehouse-effect
Explains how insular groups develop consensus views that diverge from reality.
curation-labsl3-systems_modernity-as-stressor-removal
Explains how modernity removes beneficial stressors and produces systemic fragility.
curation-labsl5-fooled-by-randomness_inverse-skills-problem
Explains why evidence of skill decreases as organizational rank increases.
curation-labsl5-skin-in-the-game_psychology-replication-crisis
Analyzes psychology's replication crisis as evidence of absent skin in the game in academia.
curation-labsl2-risk_barbell-strategy
Applies the barbell strategy combining extreme safety with extreme risk across life domains.
curation-labsl5-the-black-swan_debt-fragility
Explains how ancient Mediterranean debt prohibitions encode structural risk management against fragility.
curation-labsl2-epistemology_via-negativa
Applies subtractive reasoning to evaluate decisions across medicine, diet, knowledge, and institutions.
curation-labsl1-authenticity-through-consequence
Defines authenticity as exposure to personal consequence within a Taleb-inspired persona framework.
curation-labsl5-the-black-swan_manufactured-stability
Explains how suppressing volatility in complex systems manufactures larger Black Swan events.
curation-labsl5-skin-in-the-game_pinker-violence-thesis-naive
Critiques Pinker's decline-of-violence thesis using fat-tail statistics and tail-risk reasoning.
curation-labsl5-fooled-by-randomness_generator-axiom
Articulates the generator axiom explaining how humans favor the visible over the hidden.
curation-labsl5-antifragile_big-data-cherry-picking
Explains how Big Data enables spurious correlations and publication cherry-picking.
curation-labsl3-risk_the-triad
Classifies systems, institutions, and ideas as fragile, robust, or antifragile based on response to volatility.
curation-labsl4-misanthropy-vs-humanism
Maps Taleb's dialectic between contempt for institutional types and tenderness toward authentic individuals.
curation-labsl3-risk_mediocristan-vs-extremistan
Explains the Mediocristan versus Extremistan framework for classifying randomness regimes in risk analysis.
curation-labsl4-evolution-from-randomness-to-fragility
Traces Taleb's intellectual shift from Black Swan prediction critique to fragility-based design.
curation-labsl5-the-black-swan_bell-curve-persistence
Explains how the Gaussian bell curve persisted in finance despite repeated empirical refutation.
curation-labsl5-the-bed-of-procrustes_freedom-autonomy
Presents Taleb's philosophical position defining freedom as autonomy from schedule, hierarchy, and narrative.
curation-labsl5-antifragile_redundancy-is-aggressive
Explains Taleb's argument that redundancy is aggressive investment in antifragility.
curation-labsl5-the-black-swan_market-concentration
Explains how ten extreme trading days drive half of long-term stock market returns.
Frequently Asked Questions About Curation Labs
FAQPage SchemaWhat tasks can I perform using Curation Labs' skills?▼
You can apply Taleb's frameworks to detect fragility in systems and institutions, distinguish Mediocristan from Extremistan payoffs, structure barbell-style risk exposure, and critique forecasts using concepts like the turkey problem, ludic fallacy, and via negativa reasoning.
Who is the target audience for this skill collection?▼
Risk managers, traders, investors, policy analysts, and decision-makers who need Taleb's mental models for uncertainty. The taleb-mind skill activates his reconstructed analytical posture, while layered skills serve readers studying Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Skin in the Game.
How are the 103 skills organized and used?▼
Skills follow a five-layer architecture: L1 Soul Values, L2 Principles, L3 World Models, L4 Reflections, and L5 Source Impressions tied to specific Taleb books. Each skill is a folder with native frontmatter declaring its name, layer, label, and description for registry ingestion.
What prerequisites are needed to use these skills?▼
No technical dependencies are specified in the manifest. Skills are self-contained knowledge modules with frontmatter metadata; familiarity with Taleb's Incerto books helps contextualize L5 source impressions, but L1-L3 layers state core values, principles, and world models independently.
Which specific Taleb concepts does the registry cover?▼
Coverage includes antifragility, convexity-concavity, ergodicity, the Lindy effect, skin in the game, the minority rule, iatrogenics, the Bob Rubin trade, the fourth quadrant, silent evidence, platonicity, and the Soviet-Harvard illusion, plus case studies on LTCM, Fannie Mae, and casino black swans.