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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
The "fox vs hedgehog" metaphor is incredibly confusing. I keep thinking "fox = hunter = single-minded on one target" vs "hedgehog = a thousand spikes" (also, "hedging" feels like the opposite of single-goal focus), and then I check and apparently it's the other way around.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
It makes a lot more sense in the context of tricksters and folklore. If you haven’t seen this, I bet you’d enjoy it. (He gets a little lost in his own prose at times, but it’s a great survey of the global mythos of entropy bringers) https://www.amazon.com/Trickster-Makes-This-World-Mischief/dp/0374532559
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
The trick is to remember their attack and defense behaviors. Hedgehogs curl up into a ball with spikes out. Foxes keep darting around their target trying to find an attack vector. A mnemonic image is a rolled up hedgehog with a fox darting around it.
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polar
@polar
I feel like Berlin would have enjoyed this 😄
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@mikedemarais.eth
all my homies hate foxes 🦊🔫
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Nelson
@nelsonmckey
New reading material unlocked.
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damn pain got hands
@na
fox be vs. fox do hedgehog be vs. hedgehog do
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moreReese
@morereese
I’ve always found Dani Rodrik’s framing resonant from an economics perspective https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/files/dani-rodrik/files/regulation_summer_2016.pdf?m=1466607929
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MegaRock
@megarock
Same. Need to remember Sonic characters to get it right Sonic (hedgehog) goes really fast in straight lines Tails (fox) is better to explore terrain with his flying
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notqz🎩
@fishbiscuit
Fox = cunning, crafty Hedgehog = only know how to roll into ball Maybe isaiah berlin could have been clearer
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
More about survival strategies
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Jogundas Armaitis
@jogundas.eth
Goes to 7th century BC Archilochus. The cultural environment has evolved quite a bit since then, no wonder it is confusing to us. "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
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Nagu
@iam0xnagu
Hedgehog = a single, universal organizing principle, they relate everything to a single vision (like Plato's theorems of forms) Fox = explorers, they pursue many ends often unrelated or contradictory (like Aristotle) It is similar to Timothy Gowers’ “two cultures of mathematics", Freeman Dyson's "Birds and Frogs".
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@erawhale
year.
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Scott Kominers
@skominers
Wut. I've always assumed it went in the direction you just said
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@efficient
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@liquidstaking
Hello vitalik!
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