http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/06/11/my-advantage-was-ignorance/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:17:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/06/11/my-advantage-was-ignorance/#comment-177542 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:24:36 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/06/11/my-advantage-was-ignorance/#comment-177542 Sometimes it bothers me that we give so much respect to the oportunistic fools that survive. The exuberance and confidence of creatures in r-selected contexts belies the hundred of their kind that tried and died. But then, if you hang for a while in a K-selected community it's stoggy residents come to drive you bonkers too. Not to hot, not to cold I guess. But is it a strategy? Sometimes it bothers me that we give so much respect to the oportunistic fools that survive. The exuberance and confidence of creatures in r-selected contexts belies the hundred of their kind that tried and died. But then, if you hang for a while in a K-selected community it’s stoggy residents come to drive you bonkers too. Not to hot, not to cold I guess. But is it a strategy?

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