/lit/ - Literature

but I have, anon

>>14115739
Is this guy the chain link of lit? Or do you unironically appreciate this hack?

how did he btfo kant?

Nassim, takes a picture of you, Taleb

Why haven't you bought one of his boxed sets?

>>14116171
Based AF. Reminds me of Surveillance Camera Man

>>14116171
this is how the PIEs invaded Europe

>>14116171
And here I thought I couldn' hate him more
Wish foucault would raise from the dead to sodomize thes swines into submission

>>14116289
Is this bait?

Taleb and Skallas have totally rid me of the mind virus that is 21st century internet culture. I had no idea how sick I was. Getting angry over things that aren't even real. Expending valuable and scarce energy thinking about things I will never, ever encounter.

>>14116289
imbecile

>>14115773
he's more like the bath of /int/, or at least was back when I quit that shithole

>>14115739
Nassim before the bloatpill. He has trained many times with Rippetoe and posted photos. Talks stupid shit about deadlifting and meanwhile looks like a typical fat Rippetoe trainee.

>>14115739
Can’t you low effort dolts even offer a line as to how he “btfo” of each of these?
No? Haven’t read any of them?

>>14115739
Because he was retroactively btfo by our lord and savior, B.F. Skinner

>>14115739
Not bad for an Arab.

>>14117127
IMBECILE!!

>>14116346
I'm starting to think you're Taleb

>>14116171
Kek

>>14116345
which book did you read by him?

>>14115739
Because he didn't do any of that.

>>14116171
This only works if you are a big guy

>impossible
>easy
>easy
>he btfo a straw man
>fair enough
>taleb is actually a huge racist

I read Antifragile and Black Swan. It’s been a while, but I don’t recall him discussing atheism?

Taleb took the Moldbug pill on Atheism

>>14117117
Shut up butterfag

>>14115739
Taleb doesn't do any of that, but he's interesting even when he's wrong, and he has a brief chapter in (Antifragile? The most recent one) where he beautifully lays out everything that is currently wrong in society from using scientism to defend carcinogenic GMO corn to out of touch politicians.

>>14117935
This is true: "paganism" (and definitely animism) is the ultimate opposite of atheism.

>>14117935
>it's real
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/789792985529679872

>>14117784
>he doesn't lift

>>14115739
>BTFO Pascals wager

the arab that saved /lit/

>>14117987
>mixed grip

This is a supposed genius.

>>14118002
>arab
you wish.

>>14118017
he was taught by the best

>>14118095
>get in nigger we're saving the West

He doesn't "BTFO" Kant. He misinterprets him and attributes a common philistine ethical attitude to him.
I like Taleb but his takes on Kant are retarded.

>>14118032

>>14117127
People from Lebanon are not Arab, they don’t even speak Arabic.

>>14118333
I’ve seen you post this a few times. What do you mean they don’t speak Arabic?

>>14118375
The people of Lebanon speak majority Phoenician, French and some English. It’s sad that you didn’t know this already. I’m so tired of the Arabic meme.

>>14118375
Arabs -- the ethny and the language -- originated befire the Middle Ages in what is now Yemen and spread north. Lebanon was settled from very ancient times with people who share no blood with Arabs. It's like if you had Normandy French without any Italian blood but you also had Frenchmen from Provence with significant Italic blood and language admixture.

>>14118399
>The people of Lebanon speak majority Phoenician

>>14117935
Can someone explain what he means by that? Is he trying to say that atheists have the same zeal as evangelical christians ... or is there something more to it?

>>14118375
Arabs do not exist in Lebanon. Lebanese all have blonde hair, blue/green eyes and are pale skin like Taleb (he colors his hair)

>>14118095
This is too much

>>14118095
Who’s that

>>14115739
Alright you win Taleb shiller now tell me where to start.

>>14120105
honesty I started with Skin in the Game but might be best to start from the top of Incerto

>>14120105
(1) Fooled by Randomness
(2) Black Swan
(3) Antifragile
(4) Skin in the Game
Optional: Bed of Proscutes
BoF is a very short books of aphorisms. You can read it in a sitting or skim it. It's good for determining whether you'll enjoy Taleb. Download BoF on libgen and skim the book; if what Taleb talks about in the book intrigues you, then Incerto + Skin in the Game is for you.

>>14115739
>BTFOs Kant

No philosopher has even come closer to doing this. Certainly not a white one, anyway.

>>14120151
A Phoenician philosopher destroyed Kant.

>>14120157
I'll take the bait, who? And how?

>>14120162
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1191320562532007936
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1073199529191768064
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1073544079592644613

>>14118432
twitter brainlet ousted themselves.

>>14120142
Nobody should touch BoF

>>14120105
Read chronologically, skip Procrustes.

>>14120092
Rippetoe.

>>14115739
>BTFOs race realism
how exactly did he accomplish that?

>>14120227
In twitter debates with race realists that he absolutely destroyed. He also exposed Charles Murray as a hack.
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1162105686848880640

>>14116171
this guy is considered a great thinker?

>>14118095
oh my god this is an instant save

>>14120236
"destroying" some youtube personality on twitter and nitpicking some mistake charles murray's intern made in the book's citations is really irrelevant

he doesn't even engage with that book's thesis. how retarded are you?

>>14118095
>>14120253
HOOOLY FUUCK

>>14120260
LOL. He destroyed Cochran as well.

I started reading The Black Swan this week but I can't get past the beginning. Like I imagine it gets better further in but the first part is fucking insufferable. He keeps saying "My views formed from my childhood in Lebanon and I won't bore you with the details" and then he proceeds to spend the entire next chapter boring you with the details of adolescence in Lebanon and how he likes sticking feathers up people's noses and how he thought Lebanon was paradise but "oh no a Black Swan" and it devolves into the same shit that's historically been going on in that region for millennia. How far into the book do I have to read before he stops talking about "muh shattered Lebanese utopian worldview" and starts actually talking about something interesting?

>>14120267
>m-maybe if I argue like I'm posting a youtube comment people will think I'm right

>>14120278

>>14120284
>wokaj_reactionimage_27_knowyourmeme

>>14120287
>S-STOP ATTACKING MY WORLDVIEW DR TALEB

>>14120292
keep dumping wojaks you'll win the argument

this board is just /tv/-lite these days

>>14120306
>STOP POSTING WOJAK
>ON 4CHAN

>>14120306
>>14120292
>>14120287
>>14120284
>>14120278
>>>/out/

@14120314
he ran out of alt right wojaks already lol

>>14120322
>he ran out of alt right wojaks already lol

he's still going, wtf bros I believe race is a social construct now

>>14120275
please someone who's read the book answer me and ignore the retarded wojak poster and the guy replying to him who's even more retarded

>>14120406
If I remember correctly the Lebanon bit is fairly short.

>>14120262
>mini cooper

>>14116217
underrated

>>14118420
>people who share no blood with Arabs
both of them are Semites and they share a common proto-semetic origin. that's why those languages have a lot of similarities. ethnically Lebanon is very similar to Syria but most of them deny because of le ebil syria
however after french occupation and the civil war many Maronites (btw maron was Syrian) started transforming from self hatred to delusion thinking they are the european "aryan" master race while everyone else is a filthy Arab.
read antoun saadeh

>>14118432
Ideologies are like allelles because they are patchworks of previous ideologies. Popular atheism is an ideology born in a judeo christian context, and its adherents share ingrained mores that this context implies. Specific examples of this relatedness escape me, but yarvin's work is on how this applies to modern progressivism, going back to calvinism via rousseau.

Another example of ideology-as-allelle is human rights. Cuck philosophy's most recent video explained this nicely.

>>14116217
how? pls explain

>>14120243
*takes picture*