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[Anonymous No.15365379]

Authors who predicted the future

[Anonymous No.15365389]

israel should've droned this fat arab.

[Anonymous No.15365393]

Every poor worker kinda knew what Nassim was talking about.

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[Anonymous No.15365430]

taleb has never had an original thought

[Anonymous No.15365451]

>>15365430
t. “Expert”

[Anonymous No.15365452]

>>15365430
neither has anybody else

[Anonymous No.15365457]

Taleb is so based

[Anonymous No.15365464]

>>15365457
you are base and mean

[Anonymous No.15366203]

>>15365379
Wow!! Nasir Hamid Abu-Zayd grew a goatee?? Would never accuse him of predicting the future.

[Anonymous No.15366212]

>>15365430
>t. slave to academia

[Anonymous No.15366222]

Taleb has very high IQ

[Anonymous No.15366237]

>>15365379
Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Baudrillard

[Anonymous No.15366238]

that guy deboard

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[Anonymous No.15366631]

>>15365379
I don't care if this guy got anything right, his attitude and rhetoric are annoying as fuck

t. Arab

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>>15365389
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>>15366631
Seething IYIs

[Anonymous No.15366726]

>>15365379
>stuff happens
woah

[Anonymous No.15366746]

>>15365379
What's the quick run down on Taleb? I've heard a lot about him but I haven't heard any of his ideas yet.

[Anonymous No.15366775]

>>15366746
wow bro just wait till you hear about THE BLACK SWAN. Like events happen n shit. Let me make a quick vocaroo about it.

[Anonymous No.15366798]

>>15366775
What's his basic thing? Is he like a collapse guy, a leftist, a rightist, religious, central thesis, etc. ?

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>>15366798
he’s original, read him

[Anonymous No.15366866]

>>15365430
IMBECILE

[Anonymous No.15366901]

>>15365430
came here to post this

[Anonymous No.15366906]

>>15366821
I'm not going to unless I have an actual reason to. You haven't even given a slight description of him or any recommendations of what he's written.

[Anonymous No.15366985]

>>15365379
This picture is BEFORE my weight loss

[Anonymous No.15367004]

>>15366906
His work deals with probability. How should we treat 'ruinious' events, mathematically? What are the statistical consequences of "fat tailed" distributions? What are the real world impacts of these extreme distributions and events?
He thinks he's the sexiest man in risk management since George Costanza.

[Anonymous No.15367039]

>>15366798
His basic thing is applied epistemology. He's a mathematical but practical-minded guy (worked in finance for years before earning big bucks and settled to write), hates scientism and most modern intellectuals that he recognizes as "charlatans". He has a thing for the ancients, especially the Romans. Not particularly religious, but recognizes religion's importance as coding some kind of ancient wisdom. Some philosophers he likes are Hume and Popper, he dislikes Hegel and metaphysical bullshit in general. His political outlook is mostly anti-globalization but not for the usual reasons. His ideas can be applied with an individualistic or collectivist outlook and his ethics are in the main utilitarian.

[Anonymous No.15367048]

>>15366821
nothing original is true, nothing true is original

[Anonymous No.15367070]

>>15367048
It all had to be at some point

[Anonymous No.15367238]

>>15367070
Yeah when it was with G-d before he created the universe, retard.

[Anonymous No.15367301]

>>15367238
:'(

[Anonymous No.15367312]

>>15366347
True, but Ted didn't also predict that technology would be our death in the form of commerical entertainment.

[Anonymous No.15367518]

>>15367312
He basically did, his whole concept of surrogate activities covers that, though obviously not as completely as others.

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>>15366815
bakunin looks like the frontman of a sludge metal band

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>>15365379

[Anonymous No.15367571]

What did ya'll think of this?
Can we shill this big on /pol/ and kickstart the Localist revolution?

Principia Politica:
https://www.academia.edu/38433249/Principia_Politica

[Anonymous No.15367589]

>>15367571
I would love to, but what ways could you go about condensing fractal localism into a few points that are easy to shill?

[Anonymous No.15368431]

>>15365379
What did he predict?

[Anonymous No.15368439]

>>15366631
STOP BEING RUDE NASIM, PLEASE

[Anonymous No.15368468]

Why do people hate Taleb? Hes a based academic who lives honestly and makes reddditors seethe.

[Anonymous No.15368479]

>>15367039
>likes popper
hard pass

[Anonymous No.15368493]

>be me
>a statistician
>spend 9 years of my life in formal education for this
>read this Taleb guy
>pop math, so nothing original
>still, clearly an intelligent guy popularizing cool statistical concepts
>I like him I suppose
>come to /lit/
>he is now being hailed as one of the greatest minds of the generation
>whatthefuck.jpg

[Anonymous No.15368506]

>>15368493
The importance of pop academics is that they are able to transpose ideas out of their academic niche into the minds of civil society's major stakeholders. I am a western civil servant and what I see is that guys like taleb are impactful because lazy bureaucrats dont want to spend the time and energy to get up to speed with some intense academic debate, but they do read guys like Taleb.

Of course only digesting the pop academics also comes with its set of flaws

[Anonymous No.15368842]

>>15368493
It's just one shill/fanboy that keeps making these threads.