![]() I'm told the spicy stuff is particularly good but I can't have it as sweat sprouts from my scalp and down my beard and this puts off my lunch companion. There are exotic things you can have, too, as befits a restaurant that is so London urban. There is a wonderful fresh tuna salad (the tuna perfectly cooked and tasty) with chick peas. Once there was a chef who made crispy fries but he is gone and the current one favours pallid soft ones, a great shame. Hamburgers are thick and juicy, the fish in the fish and chips succulent. The menu is extremely varied, there are excellent daily specials and the food is very good. But that is part of the fun, I guess, like wondering what hellish engine from outer space lies behind the metal tiles. ![]() It's all very confusing and despite going there often I still don't get it. ![]() However, if you come in through that side entrance the likelihood is that you will be summarily sent to the receptionist at the Ludgate Hill entrance. More often one is sent to the restaurant area, the larger axle of the L, and that has a separate side entrance. Sometimes one is allowed to have lunch here but sometimes not. At the front entrance on Ludgate HIll, there is a bar area and also comfortable armchairs with small tables. It is L-shaped and in the junction has strange metal tiles with chipping white paint that seem to be hiding something from science fiction. In short, happenstance says progress is viable.Īnd that is something we can be very happy about.The Happenstance is eclectic. Or, if one is convinced that we will eventually eat ourselves out of house and home, in a Malthusian way. This is rather welcoming if one doubts, for example, that poverty in third world countries can be eradicated. It tells us that we as a species are not locked into our less noble characteristics, and can therefore evolve to more progressive states. One could argue will to power obstructs equilibrium, because of course in utopia dominating one another by force would seem, well, disruptive.īut if will to power is not a first best outcome, and if evolution is real, will to power can be transcended.Īnd finally our abstract theory of happenstance has a use! Neitchze's will to power could be one example. However, on more careful consideration it does disprove more deterministic theories that are popular in at least justifying some of our more caustic aggregate behaviour. Now, despite the fact that not more than four hundred years ago such a theory could have cost you your head, today it doesn't sound astonishing. You see, happenstance says that any state in the universe is not a first best state and can therefore be improved on.Īnd if a state can be improved on, then by continually improving it can reach a better state, like equilibrium, for example. He used his theory of fallibility to navigate profitably in uncertain and volatile financial markets.Īnd happenstance is a framework that can be used in the same way: to make sense of the many events around us that can be uninspiring, or in many cases simply absurd. Soros, however, it seems did exactly that. George Soros's theory of fallibility, which states that all things in the universe are flawed, for example, is not the kind of theory you can apply practically, like gravity. 'But all falsificationist methodologies were not created equally!', you might say. In 2017, an inorganic chemist from UCLA named Chong Liu created in a lab a more efficient photosynthesis - the means by which plants turn photons into storable energy using bacteria and inorganic compounds - and at the same time validating happenstance. Happenstance is in this regard no different. Now most similar theories, for example Adam Smith's invisible hand or Karl Popper's falsificationist methodology, can be supported empirically in some way or another, but are not typically applicable in any non-normative ways. ![]() Nature could have come up with a creature that was better than a giraffe at eating leaves from tall trees, which in fact it did: us.ĭonate to save the giraffes A link to donations for giraffe conservation, with an image of a giraffe laying on its side. Thus a giraffe is not necessarily the best creature nature could put forward to eat leaves from tall trees, it's just some randomly derived creature that evolved successfully to eat leaves from tall trees. Happenstance states that events in the universe are chance derived with outcomes that are neither first nor last best outcomes but outcomes that exist on a seemingly infinite continuum of possible ordinal outcomes ranked by any given set of criteria.
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