Theme: Deception

  • I think we have defeated both Taleb’s argument and his motives for it. And his s

    I think we have defeated both Taleb’s argument and his motives for it. And his stubborn attempts to repeat it are embarrassing. While it is true that logical capacity degrades non linearly with measured IQ, (frighteningly so) and marginal difference in output, especially income, decreases above 140, the harsh reality is that I can, we can, easily tell the difference between one another over 140, with my favorite examples being Terrance Tao, Magnus Carlsen, Ed Witten and Noam Chomsky. Each of whom possesses extraordinary abilities across the intelligence spectrum, that I can understand but not achieve.

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb


    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-13 05:13:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922158306426290176

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922028395283513791


    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    I just published IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Closing the Discussion)
    https://t.co/sR5GJEHz60

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922028395283513791

  • RT @curtdoolittle: @SangusUK @PUB_001 @BehizyTweets Pretense of knowledge. This

    RT @curtdoolittle: @SangusUK @PUB_001 @BehizyTweets Pretense of knowledge. This is despite the fact that searching such things is available…


    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-13 00:07:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922081341882913112

  • Pretense of knowledge. This is despite the fact that searching such things is av

    Pretense of knowledge. This is despite the fact that searching such things is available at the touch of a button these days.
    I only needed to repeatedly bait you into demonstrating you lack any knowledge of the subject matter so that you cannot escape, and instead I can confirm, your egoistic attempt at deception out of arrogance and ignorance and attempt to cover it up through rolling accusation.
    Worse, despite being on a public platform and me being a public intellectual, apparently you are unaware of my work in sex differences in cognition and deception.

    In a bit I’ll post the answers. ;). Including the economists. All of which was available to you if you had the minimum skill necessary to search for it.
    1)
    https://
    x.com/curtdoolittle/
    status/1922074242881069342

    2)
    https://
    x.com/curtdoolittle/
    status/1922075410441109946


    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-12 23:46:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922075998914547881

  • Pretense of knowledge. This is despite the fact that searching such things is av

    Pretense of knowledge. This is despite the fact that searching such things is available at the touch of a button these days.
    I only needed to repeatedly bait you into demonstrating you lack any knowledge of the subject matter so that you cannot escape, and instead I can confirm, your egoistic attempt at deception out of arrogance and ignorance and attempt to cover it up through rolling accusation.
    Worse, despite being on a public platform and me being a public intellectual, apparently you are unaware of my work in sex differences in cognition and deception.

    In a bit I’ll post the answers. ;). Including the economists. All of which was available to you if you had the minimum skill necessary to search for it.
    1) https://t.co/4HZddRpHIj
    2) https://t.co/LSqUOEbqt7

    Reply addressees: @SangusUK @PUB_001 @BehizyTweets


    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-12 23:46:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922075998750973952

  • You provided nothing in support of your argument other than what is termed in th

    You provided nothing in support of your argument other than what is termed in the study of rhetorical deception “pretense of knowledge” (lying).


    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-12 20:08:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922020957465546838

  • You provided nothing in support of your argument other than what is termed in th

    You provided nothing in support of your argument other than what is termed in the study of rhetorical deception “pretense of knowledge” (lying).


    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-12 20:08:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922020957465546838

    Reply addressees: @SangusUK @PUB_001 @BehizyTweets

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922019037959127091

  • (From Elsewhere) RE: US China Trade Negotiations as “Delay and Deceive”, “Face B

    (From Elsewhere)
    RE: US China Trade Negotiations as “Delay and Deceive”, “Face Before Truth” and Outright Lying.

    The Chinese are nothing like Westerners. They do not seek win-win but authoritarianism. They use “Face before Truth”, they use “Delay and Deceive”, the do not seek partnership they seek rule in the interest of their ruling class regardless of the consequence to their people or to others. They never adhere to agreement or contract by using delay and deceive.

    As a rational pragmatism, it is merely better to Talk vs War. However, we are all waiting to determine who will blink first – the chinese economy, the Chinese CCP, or Trump and the Trump administration. So basically, we will have until at least next spring before anyone ‘blinks.

    Most of the outcome is predicated on how fast the Trump administration can push through both domestic and international agenda, so that the US Economy has a future independent of China, or whether the rate and severity of the decline in the Chinese economy causes a threat to the stability of the CCP necessitating their compromise.

    IMO war is their best option but it only will accelerate the decline of the CCP. This leader, another chinese “Bad Emperor” problem (Look it up) could have kept on building their commercial dominance and the rest of the world would have been just as happy as we were before “Bad Emperor Xi”. But between the Taiwan issue, the India issue, the Russia Issue, the North Korea issue, the CCP is just another well funded state terrorist organization.

    The USA makes plenty of mistakes but they want all people to have sovereignty within their borders, human rights for all, and free trade for all. And Americans have spent too much blood and treasure dragging mankind out of its historical warfare into the Pax Americana to have their investments seized and abused by yet another set of authoritarian terrorists trying to set the world backward by two centuries.
    CD
    #TradeWar


    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-11 22:43:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1921697658105962662

  • (From Elsewhere) RE: US China Trade Negotiations as “Delay and Deceive”, “Face B

    (From Elsewhere)
    RE: US China Trade Negotiations as “Delay and Deceive”, “Face Before Truth” and Outright Lying.

    The Chinese are nothing like Westerners. They do not seek win-win but authoritarianism. They use “Face before Truth”, they use “Delay and Deceive”, the do not seek partnership they seek rule in the interest of their ruling class regardless of the consequence to their people or to others. They never adhere to agreement or contract by using delay and deceive.

    As a rational pragmatism, it is merely better to Talk vs War. However, we are all waiting to determine who will blink first – the chinese economy, the Chinese CCP, or Trump and the Trump administration. So basically, we will have until at least next spring before anyone ‘blinks.

    Most of the outcome is predicated on how fast the Trump administration can push through both domestic and international agenda, so that the US Economy has a future independent of China, or whether the rate and severity of the decline in the Chinese economy causes a threat to the stability of the CCP necessitating their compromise.

    IMO war is their best option but it only will accelerate the decline of the CCP. This leader, another chinese “Bad Emperor” problem (Look it up) could have kept on building their commercial dominance and the rest of the world would have been just as happy as we were before “Bad Emperor Xi”. But between the Taiwan issue, the India issue, the Russia Issue, the North Korea issue, the CCP is just another well funded state terrorist organization.

    The USA makes plenty of mistakes but they want all people to have sovereignty within their borders, human rights for all, and free trade for all. And Americans have spent too much blood and treasure dragging mankind out of its historical warfare into the Pax Americana to have their investments seized and abused by yet another set of authoritarian terrorists trying to set the world backward by two centuries.
    CD
    #TradeWar


    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-11 22:43:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1921697657845899264

  • Hard to take seriously enough to even respond, to quotes of a silly person with

    “Epistemology is a fake word btw”–@Seraph_Notitia

    Hard to take seriously enough to even respond, to quotes of a silly person with an agenda advanced by sophistry instead of testifiable truth by someone who, with pretense of knowledge claims is veracity, as a means of self image promotion despite lack of demonstrated evidence of success in anything in life. Please don’t waste my time. Thanks.

    Reply addressees: @Seraph_Notitia @Athens_Stranger


    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-09 21:39:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1920956723646599472

  • RT @LukeWeinhagen: There is no amount of evidence that will ever shift this ideo

    RT @LukeWeinhagen: There is no amount of evidence that will ever shift this ideology.

    No amount of poor student performance. No amount of…


    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-09 17:15:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1920890294469382617