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"Be a Roman among Greeks"

What did he mean by this?

>> No.12222513

>>12222503
Start with the Greeks.

>> No.12222535

practical tinkering type > theorizing s o y type

>> No.12222579

>>12222503
Take what's usefull, discard the rest.

>> No.12222761

Be a Byzantine Phoenician among Arabs

>> No.12222773

>>12222503
Greeks: degenerates and reprobates who belong on a cross
Romans: BASED & GALEAPILLED

>> No.12222832

are his books just pseud pop economics or REAL SHIT

>> No.12222876

>>12222503
First be born in Rome

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12222996

>>12222832
>For pleasure, read one chapter by Nabokov. For punishment, two.
Think on that and decide for yourself.

>> No.12223221

>>12222503
Be a white man among the Arabs

>> No.12223318

>>12222832
Maybe 80 pages or so into Black Swan and I wasn't particularly impressed. I put it down months ago and all I recall is

> Ludic fallacy (misapplication of tidy theoretical models to messy real-world problems)
> Stop applying the normal distribution to everything (fair point but it seems a bit of a straw man. I think he might be overstating the degree to which people blindly put their faith in normality assumptions but I'll defer to his experience)
> Extremistan vs. Mediocristan
> Antilibrary (what you don't know matters far more than what you do know)

He had some good ideas but the book seemed to lack depth. I should mention though that I'm in a statistics graduate program so it could simply be that, given my exposure to a lot of these problems/ideas, it seems less novel or compelling to me than it might come across to a layman. He's also a bit of wanker and up his own asshole about how smart and unconventional he is.

>> No.12223347

>>12223318
I like Nassim because he shits on other pseuds and then they show their true colors, even if he may be a pseud too.

>> No.12223368

>>12223347
Ha yeah true. His irreverence shtick is amusing in small doses but after a while I'd prefer he just stfu and focus on his own work

>> No.12223420

Anti-Fragile was an important work, but sometimes I feel like he will eventually succumb to his own hubris

>> No.12223572

Be a Man among Geeks

>> No.12223623

>>12222503
A play on Benoit Mandelbrot's "A Greek among Romans", which means something like "a scholar among brutes".
Taleb on the other hand means something like: "a practical person among people who overthink everything".

Why do you keep making threads about this guy?

>> No.12223668

Romans are romanticized by cringey nerds.