What other contemporary writers will be remembered and discussed two millennia from now?
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What other contemporary writers will be remembered and discussed two millennia from now?
>two millennia
We'll have committed suicide as a species by then
Not if we take his advice
Not that IYI arab you posted
Imbecile
Taleb is a prophet, a seer of the desert
Jason Bryan once he has 10+ books written
kek taleb is such a product of his time. i swear half of his books are meant to portray himself as opposed to, or distinct from the powers that be. This is evident stylistically but also in the ideas he seems to engage in or emphasize (at least publicly). You mean to tell me that he's a skeptical empiricist who is also a Greek Orthodox who loves to spend his mornings in monasteries doing math problems? He's familiar with philosophy but never took the time to learn metaphysics? He believes in evolution but has a nearly religious commitment to the cope of Stephen Jay Gould and believes he's put an end to IQ studies? Seriously, the guy is a total mess and its evident in the fact that he looks like he's about to blow up everytime he feels slighted.
He's the rare thinker who understands markets.Your being a hater
no. I own his Incerto and was a huge fan years ago but it seriously reads like schizo shit now. he's described himself as a flaneur and it reads exactly like that: a random, wandering session through cursory apprenshions of subjects underpinned by evolutionary thought. this guy has a passage about having night terrors when he 'realized' how random everything was. I can't say anything about the validity of his theories on probability (or their usefulness) and so on but his worldview is schizo-tier since he wants to simultaneously uphold the forms of math and logic and a theory of a directionless, purposeless historical process.
This is EXACTLY what makes him such a valuable and worthwhile thinker to engage with. He isn't afraid to spout out his opinions on whatever the frick he wants, even if he's outright wrong about them, which he IS, and quite often too. But it's basically good that he's so obviously wrong about so much, because that forces you to be on guard when reading him, instead of assuming he must be right by default; he's a non canonized outsider and should be read as such, and in reading him you're encountering much valuable and insightful thought, interspersed with garbage, so that you're really forced to think about what he's saying to extract the good from it while avoiding being tripped up by his bad takes.
I don't disagree but I would caution recommending him to anyone who isn't familiar with philosophy since they'll get infected with his schizo. I mean even the way he lays our his books as these half fictional/narrative works seems to suspend the readers judgment and invoke the exact response of just nodding along to his ramblings.
>I would caution recommending him to anyone who isn't familiar with philosophy since they'll get infected with his schizo
I completely agree, I feel the value of his work is chiefly in portraying the fundamentally philosophical nature of statistical reasoning, which can defend you against assaults from the kinds of "technical men" who argue all sorts on nonsense from data, and free you from assuming the world is more regularly behaved than it is, even if people use bad statistical arguments to claim otherwise. Taleb is good, but it's potentially dangerous for him to be read naively by too broad an audience, so there is real need for caution, even if it's more important to caution against the excess technicality he's attacking.
His Twitter is funny. I dont understand his hatred of bodybuilding or competing in sports. A stuttering nerd pretending to be some robust renaissance man is always entertaining, I like him
Dislikes modern academia, learns 10 languages, not like red pill anti elites who do nothing.
Never lived using other people money like a public servant or a thiel puppet, became rich on hos own theories and his fund has some.of the highest returns in the planet.
They dislike him because he is honest. Amazing desert dweller.
Not unlike Plato
I respect Taleb for his knowledge of probability and attacks on frauds, but I've noticed he promotes a lot of conspiracy theories and propaganda on Twitter. His most recent retweet that I saw was promoting a ZeroHedge article that implies the Baltimore bridge was an attack. He's also been retweeting a lot of pro-Palestinian misinformation/fake news.
Pic unrelated?
>https://naturallawinstitute.com/2019/10/taleb-as-scam-artist-undermining-western-civilization/
>West and east used tests successfully to filter out corruption for positions in government. Same for military, then same for academy. Wealth is available across the bell curve, with complexity (IQ) determining your market. You need conscientiousness to accumulate that wealth.
>What taleb is attempting to obscure is west can create large complex organizations because of trust and trust under rule of law, and rule of law by filtering out corruption granting privilege to IQ. He can’t face that because levantines cannot create trust, rule of law or large complex organizations, because they thing lying is a tool, cunning is of merit, outwitting by cunning superior than outwitting by increase in productivity, quality, or innovation, and that the commons is to be pilfered rather than invested in at every opportunity.
>So taleb is missing the whole point: that he is only able to use his techniques of via-negativa risk invstment, becuase he is in the only high trust polity, using IMMORAL MEANS OF GAIN, and so is his alter ego “Fat Tony”. These men are, by western ethics and morality ‘Scammers”.
low-trust Christian Arabs, our response?
curt is also an evolutionist freak so who cares. that piss pants will never be able to organize anything meaningful because his autistic worldview misunderstands the nature of Christianity and the forces at play in the world. do you trust a man who condenses definitions of words (symbols) and concepts (hierarchical networks of meaning) into parathesis? he's moronic (joke)