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Thoughts on this great man?

>> No.15056927

Antifragile is his best.
Black Swan a classic.
Skin in the Game was unimpressive.

>> No.15056933

thoughts on skallas?

>> No.15056944

>>15056913
made me realize that I'm an IYI
dont care

>> No.15056953

>>15056927
What about Fooled by Randomness?

>> No.15057216

>>15056953
Forgettable I guess then

>> No.15057239

>>15056913
arab goat fucker

>> No.15057240

>>15056913
stinky yet based Arab

>> No.15057263

>>15057239
>>15057240
He's Orthodox Christian.

>> No.15057284

>>15057263
an Arab orthodox Christian

>> No.15057290

>>15057263
so a stinky arab

>> No.15057294

>"Black Swan" Hedge Fund Advised By Nassim Taleb Returns 3,612% In March

Taleb wins again

>> No.15057330

Generally agree with most of what he says, but he's undeniably an obnoxious manchild. The way he deliberately cultivates a group of sycophantic followers and retweets Twitter accounts like "Nicholas Nassim Taleb's wisdom" and some comic-book which draws him as an ultra-macho superhero, is quite frankly embarrassing. As with most "intellectuals", the more he strays from his narrow domain of expertise, the more derivative and less impressive he is.

>> No.15057408

>>15057330
Two comics even (if only one with him as superhero)

>> No.15057424

>>15057408
What's the other one? The one I'm referring to is called "Black Swan Man" or something like that iirc

>> No.15057975

>>15056913
Will be inducted in the canon, whether you like it or not. He's also living the dream. Made his fortune and now just doing whatever the fuck he wants. Reading, writing, not taking shit. Has an actual audience too. Probably saved (at least) hundreds of lives during this pandemic. I'm sure 99% of /lit/ is just jealous of him.

>>15056933
Based but overrated nonetheless.

>> No.15058006

>>15056913
Interesting man, very smart, overly emotional sometimes but that’s his schtick

>>15056933
Hanger on of talebs fame, 4hl is a good concept but rest of work is boring

>> No.15058022

>>15056944
hit the gym, drop Foucault

Otherwise shut up forever

>> No.15058034

The best Arab.

>> No.15058078
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>>15058034
imbecile

>> No.15058118

>>15056913
Is that Michel Foucault?

>> No.15058119

>>15058078
He an Arab though

>> No.15059099
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>> No.15059122

>>15056913
4,144% return in 1 month don't lie

Taleb is the philosopher of our times.

>> No.15059123

>>15056913
I am decided: Nassim taleb will be raped within the month. I will devote myself to finding out his residency, his routines, and I will plot and plan my moment of violation meticulously. This is a very real goal I have set, and I shall know neither rest nor mortal satisfaction until it has been attained.

>> No.15059181

>>15056913
I think I'm going to have non-consensual sex with Nassim Taleb.

I am decided: Nassim Taleb will be raped within the month. I will devote myself to finding out his residency, his routines, and I will plot and plan my moment of violation meticulously. This is a very real goal I have set, and I shall know neither rest nor mortal satisfaction until it has been attained.

If you think about it, how is Nassim Taleb different from a woman? They are equally timid. Equally frivolous. Equally acquiescent. Equally narcissistic. Equally upset by a combination of words or ideas that do not conform to the status-quo. And no doubt Mr. Taleb has sucked a penis too--maybe just a silicon one (for now), but nevertheless he has tried it; has been struck with the same sort of 'oh-i'm-so-so-naughty' inclination that seizes all women at some point in their life and with the frenzied tom-tom of feminine sexuality blaring in their head which is only ever empty and only ever filled when the image or implication of a Penis can be grasped in external reality, and just like such a woman has Nassim Taleb greedily taken hold of the dildo that he secretly keeps in his top drawer (why disguise it further? why, wouldn't he be happy if someone were to discover his little perversion? oh think of how oh so so naughty that would be!) and after taking the full 7.5" of rubber down his throat he is filled with such a thrill such that no expression of his "masculine" sexuality has ever come close to attaining.

Hmm, indeed, the lines between Woman and Nassim Taleb continue to blur, and my dick continues to rise. Raping him could be ethically and epistemologically justified, both through Utilitarian ethics and Platonic Teleology, but I will not go into that here. Suffice to say that raping Nassim Taleb would be a net benefit for the world as such, as material entity and conceptual ideal. It would be a rape that would satisfy so many hearts, so many minds, and most importantly my own penis.

>> No.15059592

>>15058118
No. Its Sayyid Hayder Bahraluloom
the author of Skin in the Game.

>> No.15059618

i forget which book but i like how he talks about how prosperous and open alexandria was

>> No.15059633

>>15058022
I can lift heavier than you

>> No.15059692

>>15059181
This plan doesn't sound antifragile. Therefore a black swan may thwart the execution of your plan. Keep in mind Taleb wants to be the Tony Soprano of the intelectual cosa nostra. He doesn't know this but its clear as day to some. He's also an avid dead lifter. More importantly he knows the importance of having skin in the game if he's to be the pseudfather of the intellectual mafia. So he may use your planned attack as the opportunity to make his bones and in the process you could be the one that gets his fat tail destroyed

>> No.15060538

>>15056927
this desu. love taleb when it comes to rigourous analysis and antifragile and black san are pretty much faultless. taleb on ethics is not really wortth it, but i thought there were still bits of SITG that were worthwhile - the parts where he wasn't telling you how to behave.

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>>15056933
leech

>>15057263
>He's Orthodox Christian.
only because he thinks it makes him "phoenician" and that to him it is a cultural practice not a matter of life and death. Why would a follower of Christ want to be as rich as Taleb?

What's with him LARPing as an Italian? Lebanon has been conquered lots of times, he likely has no direct lineage to the Phoenicians proper. He's an Arab that shouts at you to buy his wares at a bazaar, not a Med Hellenic scholar or Renaissance thinker.

>> No.15062191

>>15058078
Based

>> No.15063548

>>15056933
not lindy

>> No.15063559

>>15056913
I liked 'Skin in the Game' a lot. It really resonated with me because a lot of the people in my work environment gave no fucks about their work. I worked in academia. They had zero drive to actually perform. Except for a precious few, the higher-up people were, the more their job was just politics.

>> No.15063589

>>15059692
Made me laugh

>> No.15063607

His personality appears obnoxious to me but his ideas are pretty good or at least worthy of a serious discussion

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>>15057424
This one. It doesn't feature him but does parrot his ideas

>> No.15063774

>>15063589
The Pseudfather, gabish

>> No.15063823

>>15057330
this guy gets it

>> No.15063826

He blocked me on twitter for questioning his takes on corona virus. He's a stubborn asshole, no wonder everyone hates him in his field

>> No.15063832

>>15063826
What did you question? He's been spot on & months ahead of most "experts"

>> No.15063838

>>15059181
>both through Utilitarian ethics and Platonic Teleology

The Platonic was delightful, cured my Nihilism, but who was the best Utilitarian for you?

>> No.15064011

He's a lifter and lifters are pro. Brain, muscle, training. Fuck imbeciles.

>> No.15064391

Why is he so butthurt that people call him an Arab? Could it be because he's an actual Arab?

>> No.15064690

>>15063832
go to bed nassim

>> No.15064988

>>15060541
The Lebanese are direct descendants of the Phoenicians. Keep up with genetics before you say something stupid like that.
>only because he thinks it makes him "phoenician"
He's Orthodox because he's Greek as well.

>> No.15065148

>>15063826
Lol, nobody hates him outside of twitter personalities. He blocked you on twitter and you're upset. Get a grip.

>> No.15065367

>>15064391
Because he was persecuted by Arabs for writing The Satanic Verses.
That aside, his writings are top tier and he is extremely rigorous in his reasoning and philosophy.

>> No.15065385

>>15058078
There’s such a tangible amount of butthurt here I can taste it through the screen. Why is he so fragile about being an Arab?

>> No.15065391

>>15065367
Those are two different people dingus

>> No.15065403

>>15065367
Googled Rushdie, they both look exactly the same so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. You’re still a dingus though

>> No.15066291

>>15057263
100% greek-syrian genetics!

>> No.15066422

>>15065385
Because Arabs can't be made men and the only way to be the pseudfather is to be made first.

>> No.15066452

>>15057330
He is basically jordan peterson for midwits

>> No.15066958

>>15066452
he is more, Taleb has new ideas while Jordan just recycles 1950s crap.

>> No.15067094

>>15060541
>Sam Harris
prime fragilista IYI example

>> No.15067278

>>15056913
he wishes he was born sicilian

>> No.15067295

>>15060541
what an absolute imbecile

>> No.15067444

>>15066958
Taleb has old ideas that have been forgotten due to neomania in science, technology, and literature.

>> No.15067459

>>15066958
>Taleb has new ideas
>unexpected things happen
Imbecile!

>> No.15067755

>>15057975
>Probably saved (at least) hundreds of lives during this pandemic.

Not arguing with you but can you expand on this? Based on what I know about him, I'm assuming he was arguing that the thing would be bad and that nothingburgers were dumb to discount the possibility of major disruption?

>> No.15067889

>>15056913
Taleb really stuck to me. I don't get most of what he says, as I didn't get deep into the statistics course during university, we are on different scales of being. To me he was the first person who gave a shit about my grandmother stories. He appeals to my logic. The chapter of fuck your money really stood out, as most of the time I was searching for a direction in life, a way to take the correct decisions and avoid suffering. Also he wrote about never taking advice from anyone who hasn't skin in the game. And really most of the people you met in life think they know more than you, when we are really inside the same game, barely surviving, going in circles as the dumbfucks we are. I don't know if this is how Peterson fags worship him because he was the first person who recommend them to clean their rooms. I have to say he is insightful and will introduce a couple fun ideas. I just don't wish that /lit/ circlejerks around him, the whole colonialism virus /lit/ has stuck us in a phase that reduces to "bro the black swan is real". I know think the statements reflect anything, but are a echo box of sorts.'

>> No.15069145

>>15059123
>>15059181
Nassim Taleb is antifragile. Therefore your rape will only make him stronger.

>> No.15070047

>>15067755
He published a paper on Jan 26th (less than 2000 cases worldwide and almost all in China) arguing for strict measures like lockdowns and such. Governments everywhere were still too late anyway but some (like America's) were directly influenced by the paper in proposing current lockdown measures. He also (indirectly) convinced the UK government to stop their insane herd immunity strategy with an article in the Guardian and relentless attacks on it on Twitter.

>> No.15070057

>>15070047
We said this on pol two weeks before that.

>> No.15070065

>>15067889
People on here like to pretend that all the things he's saying are obvious (bad things happen, you should be prepared, things get out of hand quickly, don't take advice from idiots, get money) but he's the first to admit he's merely reiterating ancient wisdom anyway, that's largely been forgotten in the modern, overoptimized world. Shit, every other paragraph he quotes some Latin or Greek poet, and people think they're smart for saying "everything Taleb talks about has been known for centuries". Yeah, no shit. The point is that we've largely forgotten, not that he invented something new.

>> No.15070070

>>15070057
...So? You want me to jerk you off? The guy asked "how did Taleb save lives" and that's how. I'm sure /pol/ convinced a few hundred people of the severity of the crisis too.

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>>15056933
>thoughts on skallas?
The Lindy haddiths rests on poor Skallas' head (PBUH). May the holy word of lindy be repeated for ever more.

Pic related. There is one mistake in interpretation specifically noted by Skallas. Can you spot it?

>> No.15070095

Is that the original author of Microsoft Word?

>> No.15071227

>>15065148
twitter personalities are the only people who like him lmao

>> No.15071278

>>15056913
Woah sometimes unexpected things happen woah

>> No.15071283

>>15064391
>>15065385
It's a Middle Eastern thing. Arabs are to the Middle East what Anglos are to the West. I'm half Iranian and the easiest way to trigger my Persian relatives is to call them Arabs. My usually demure aunt went on a full on sweary Facebook rant a few months back because some post referred to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf.