Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

Did you make that leap with me? Well, then follow me. Taleb is a Charlatan who a

Did you make that leap with me? Well, then follow me.

Taleb is a Charlatan who at first glance popularized Mandelbrot’s insights through humorous ego-inspiring essays making us feel smart like it made him feel smart. But the reality is, we have been smart for 5000 years: …

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 15:40:40 UTC

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@clairlemon (b) rule of law and involuntary warranty must be extended from commercial goods and services to all information in the marketplace. yes that’s right. We gave license to people to not warranty their words in the 20th, and that’s the reason we are where we are today. Period.

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@clairlemon (b) rule of law and involuntary warranty must be extended from commercial goods and services to all information in the marketplace. yes that’s right. We gave license to people to not warranty their words in the 20th, and that’s the reason we are where we are today. Period.

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October 3, 2019
So let me reduce Taleb’s life’s work as an essayist in ridicule of western civil

So let me reduce Taleb’s life’s work as an essayist in ridicule of western civilization to its foundations: (a) Mandelbrot was right that the stock market is just noise so w/o inside information just invest in funds. … (and here comes the big one) …

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 15:37:57 UTC

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@clairlemon Meanwhile, he fails to grasp that those ‘educated but unintelligent people’ are in their position to eliminate error and low trust, not to maximize profits. Which if you have been following along this argument I’m making, means that not maximizing personal profit maximizes ALL.

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@clairlemon Meanwhile, he fails to grasp that those ‘educated but unintelligent people’ are in their position to eliminate error and low trust, not to maximize profits. Which if you have been following along this argument I’m making, means that not maximizing personal profit maximizes ALL.

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October 3, 2019
Meanwhile, he fails to grasp that those ‘educated but unintelligent people’ are

Meanwhile, he fails to grasp that those ‘educated but unintelligent people’ are in their position to eliminate error and low trust, not to maximize profits. Which if you have been following along this argument I’m making, means that not maximizing personal profit maximizes ALL.

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 15:34:44 UTC

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@clairlemon … opportunities are not scarcer, but more plentiful, but so are the increasing cascades of error.

So you know, basically, Taleb has been trying to teach the west how to devolve into a low trust bunch of middle eastern scam artists and calling it ‘smart’. …

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@clairlemon … opportunities are not scarcer, but more plentiful, but so are the increasing cascades of error.

So you know, basically, Taleb has been trying to teach the west how to devolve into a low trust bunch of middle eastern scam artists and calling it ‘smart’. …

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October 3, 2019
opportunities are not scarcer, but more plentiful, but so are the increasing cas

… opportunities are not scarcer, but more plentiful, but so are the increasing cascades of error.

So you know, basically, Taleb has been trying to teach the west how to devolve into a low trust bunch of middle eastern scam artists and calling it ‘smart’. …

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 15:32:34 UTC

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@clairlemon … with status and income, forcing a status hierarchy that must be imitated. And that’s before we get to the fact that smarter people are better at suppressing error – which strangely, Taleb, as another proponent of via-negativa seems to overlook. And that as we scale …

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@clairlemon … with status and income, forcing a status hierarchy that must be imitated. And that’s before we get to the fact that smarter people are better at suppressing error – which strangely, Taleb, as another proponent of via-negativa seems to overlook. And that as we scale …

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October 3, 2019
with status and income, forcing a status hierarchy that must be imitated. And th

… with status and income, forcing a status hierarchy that must be imitated. And that’s before we get to the fact that smarter people are better at suppressing error – which strangely, Taleb, as another proponent of via-negativa seems to overlook. And that as we scale …

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 15:31:23 UTC

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@clairlemon … but you cannot push trust, reciprocity, truth, and duty, judge and jury, contract and rule of law, down into a population and produce the multiples of scale, unless you FILTER upward for both intelligence (complexity) and conscientiousness, and you reward the combination …

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@clairlemon … but you cannot push trust, reciprocity, truth, and duty, judge and jury, contract and rule of law, down into a population and produce the multiples of scale, unless you FILTER upward for both intelligence (complexity) and conscientiousness, and you reward the combination …

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October 3, 2019
Yet Taleb’s entire literature is devoted to lionizing scamming while ridiculing

Yet Taleb’s entire literature is devoted to lionizing scamming while ridiculing those who hold positions of privilege (influence) precisely because they are not in the scamming business. Now, this analysis will expose the primary difference between middle eastern and western…

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 15:18:37 UTC

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@clairlemon 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”.

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@clairlemon 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”.

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October 3, 2019
I don’t want to be the front man on this subject but he’s not trying to take dow

I don’t want to be the front man on this subject but he’s not trying to take down psychology, he’s trying to justify arab immigration to the west, and satisfy the chip on his shoulder as a christian arab. His empirical work was a dead end, and he can’t tolerate the truth: Trust.

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 15:10:18 UTC

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@clairlemon

Taleb, like Gould, is trying to demonise mainstream psychology–but he’s only successful in creating a folk demon for the lay public. He knows that anyone with any technical expertise thinks he’s a clown. But he doesn’t care, because accuracy is less important to him than fame.

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October 3, 2019
Well, you know, Gould might have thought he was doing well, just like Marx or Fr

Well, you know, Gould might have thought he was doing well, just like Marx or Freud, or Adorno, or Derrida, but it turns out he was wrong about everything with the one exception, maybe, punctuated equilibrium. Not sure why you’re defending the guy. Cognitive bias ruled him too.

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 15:06:13 UTC

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Just a reminder to go read my article in Skeptic on Stephen Jay Gould where I specifically mention Quillette for continuously making claims like this one. https://t.co/ByOTHtgAcD

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October 3, 2019
(Useful argument) @StefanMolyneux

(Useful argument)
@StefanMolyneux https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1179770601252294660

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 15:03:13 UTC

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October 3, 2019
Well I provided a perfect example precisely because you ARE the perfect example.

Well I provided a perfect example precisely because you ARE the perfect example. Did you even grasp the import of truth before face? If not then why not? Do you have a counter? Don’t you grasp that we are trying to save the foundations of our civilization from a repeat of Rome?

Source date (UTC): 2019-10-03 13:32:50 UTC

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@curtdoolittle @StefanMolyneux Thank you for providing a perfect example.

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October 3, 2019