/lit/ - Literature

He's the modern equivalent of Sextus Empiricus senpai.

>>15241746
Help me out /lit/. Is it just one autist spamming Taleb threads, or is it a bunch of them

>>15241977
Idiots are seldom alone

Cool arab

>>15241746
he's like Varg. 90% based 10% cringe.
I don't care how much he spews about genetic clusters, arabs like him will never be white
he's also gonna end up being totally wrong about COVID

>>15241977
It's definitely one guy. Someone probably sperged out on him and now he's fishing for (You)s

>>15241746
>he doesn't like to research things and generally only likes to write down thoughts if he remembers them,

that's called an 'essay', bro.

>>15241746
no one cares about what this random arabic tweeter has to say

He seems very intelligent but he's one of the worse public speakers I've ever seen. Boring timid loses the point and goes off at tangent. I think he doesn't really like his audience, hence the reservation.

It needs to be trimmed

>>15241977
Probably a publisher, same as Land/Moldbug threads

Why does he hate Economists and Psychologists?

>>15242697
IYI

>>15241746
He's a self-help guru on the level of Jordan Peterson.

He's not a great thinker, but he's done an excellent job of popularizing and assembling knowledge that was already out there and putting it into a form which helps it propagate. Particularly Ergodicity Economics, until Taleb and Ole Peters, the only person I'd ever heard discuss ergodicity outside of atomic physics was Stuart Kaufman
>>15242697
Gilded cage academics who have no repercussions if their theories turn out to be bullshit.

>>15242697
Professional bullshitters. They leech of academic prestige to get paid big bucks but when they're wrong they don't lose anything. If you know anything about statistics its quite obvious that much of non-clinical psychology is trash.

>>15241746
BASED
>>15242383
Taleb is a geneticist; he's being published in a genetics journal.

>>15243345
he also likes to LARP as if Italy and Sicily were EAST MED and take credit for Roman Civ just because a small sliver of the population has J2 haplogroup.

>>15242383
>he's also gonna end up being totally wrong about COVID
lol he's been right every step of the way and he'll continue being right for the simple reason that he understands complexity and risk better than you.

It's amazing how retard /pol/lacks were ahead of the curve on the pandemic, then have collectively turned into a bunch of dumbasses on the topic. The MAGA boomer influence has collectively wrecked your brains.

>>15243366
/pol/ has realized Elon is right and that it's a big nothing burger. Taleb just wants people to stay in place so he can say that he was right. Also he's a New Yorker so his views will be heavily skewed

>>15243365
Genetic studies have only proven Mr. Taleb right.

How can I learn to be a mathematics CHAD that uses his knowledge for v real world gains like NNT?

>>15242549
Nobody is publishing Moldbugs books though

>>15243406
that's because Moldbug cries every time he goes on video or a podcast. How can a publisher expect him to go on a promotion tour when all he does is cry like a girl?

>>15241746
>he doesn't like to research things and generally only likes to write down thoughts if he remembers them, because in his mind if he isn't able to recall something then it probably wasn't interesting enough to remember. In his mind if he has to research a topic to make a point, then the point itself is probably not very genuinely conceived.

>>15241746
>he doesn't like to research things and generally only likes to write down thoughts if he remembers them, because in his mind if he isn't able to recall something then it probably wasn't interesting enough to remember. In his mind if he has to research a topic to make a point, then the point itself is probably not very genuinely conceived.
Sounds retarded to me.

>>15243525
It's the most Chad position as you affirm your self above all others

>>15243525
If you have to research to make your argument, then how can you say your feelings about it were genuine in the first place?

>>15241960
That's a boy, isn't it?

>>15242697
Anti-semitism

Correct me if I'm wrong but is Antifragile not just Darwinism?

>>15244201
No, Darwinism describes how the fittest in an ecosystem survive. Antifragility describes the properties of certain complex systems to react and grow fitter due to volatility.
They are related but Darwinism describes a competitive environment whereas Antifragility may describe a single system.

>>15242697
Because 90% of them are full of shit and at least 50% of them are full of shit with malice

>>15242383
varg is more like 10% based

>>15244756

>>15241746
he will be forgotten in 10 years

>>15241977
I am not OP, but I agree with everything he says.

Most people who criticize Taleb have not read the whole Incerto cover to cover. The vast majority of criticisms are already addressed there. It's not a meme work like the ones you find in continental or analytic philosophy, but a true masterpiece of skepticism and rigorous thought. However, the epistemic standards it sets are *too high*, so bullshit academics get extremely sensitive about it, as Taleb shows that they aren't worthy of their salaries and should be frying hamburgers instead.