/lit/ - Literature

How has Nassim Taleb impacted the left?

Why is he so smug?

>>14630850
Imbecile.

>>11370523
white and based
تحيا سوريا ويحيا سعادة

>>11272313
>reading freakonomics in 2018

stop being fragile

ITT: hacks.

>>10993037
*doing* philosophy

>>10467367
She is extraordinarily thin skinned
>>10467372
I sent her a pic of Taleb's face and asked her how this made her feel. She rt'd it and then wrote multiple op-eds about being threatened online by armed strangers. It was pic related that made her fear for her safety.

>>10293810
w-what
is this a real thing??

>I will always remember my encounter with the writer and cultural icon Susan Sontag, largely because it was on the same day that I met the great Benoit Mandelbrot. I took place in 2001, two months after the terrorist event, in a radio station in New York. Sontag who was being interviewed, was pricked by the idea of a fellow who “studies randomness” and came to engage me. When she discovered that I was a trader, she blurted out that she was “against the market system” and turned her back to me as I was in mid-sentence, just to humiliate me (note here that courtesy is an application of the Silver rule), while her female assistant gave me the look, as if I had been convicted of child killing. I sort of justified her behavior in order to forget the incident, imagining that she lived in some rural commune, grew her own vegetables, wrote on pencil and paper, engaged in barter transactions, that type of stuff.

>No, she did not grow her own vegetables, it turned out. Two years later, I accidentally found her obituary (I waited a decade and a half before writing about the incident to avoid speaking ill of the departed). People in publishing were complaining about her rapacity; she had to squeeze her publisher, Farrar Strauss and Giroud of what would be several million dollars today for a book advance. She shared, with a girlfriend, a mansion in New York City, one that was later sold for $28 million dollars. Sontag probably felt that insulting people with money inducted her into some unimpeachable sainthood, exempting her from having skin in the game.

This guy is overrated and reddit seems to love him

He is overrated

>>9638093
>"What other 18 year old in America understands this much about business? I'm going to become a billionaire."

Looks like you needed to read more Taleb.

>>9090923
It would be extremely painful

>They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

> Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker’s life while convincing him that it is becoming more “efficient.”

> Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura.

>Nothing can be both boring and truly important.

Agree or disagree?

I get a liberating feeling from reading antifragile or his online trolling because it really inspires me to throw away all schedules and boring shit. But it feels like you need level 5000 autism to get anything done.

>yfw Christfag's hatred for Nietzsche's philosophy just makes it stronger by the generation