/lit/ - Literature

Doesn't understand statistics. Also friend of Epsteins.

BS Vendor imbecile

Read it, then reread it, then reread it again. Then maybe you can have half an opinion.

What have you done today to become more Antifragile?

Be a Roman among Greeks.

The only government that follows this mans words is also the government of the best country on earth.

"Indeed much of the work of investment banks in my day was to play on regulations, find loopholes in the laws. And, counterintuitively, the more regulations, the easier it was to make money."

How can one philosopher be so right?

Academia is bad for society.

"If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters."

>Pinker

"The real difference in politics isn't the "right" vs "left" gradation but rather "Greek" vs "Roman".

+ Greek = puts theory above practice
+ Roman= puts practice above theory

Be Roman. Now."

"There's no point dating someone who you don't think will eventually be your wife and mother of your children."

Stop smoking, get rid of debt, get rid of toxic people in your life, quit wasting time on the internet, stop eating crap, quit porn.

When was he ever wrong?

Become Antifragile or die

Western liberal democracies are committing suicide.

“If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.”

"Rule 1: No virtue signaling"

How can one man be so based?