/lit/ - Literature

>>17415757
I'm forcing her to read incerto

>>16249132
Based Talebposter

Who are some more philosophers like him?

>>16176207
t. Seething wageslave and or psychologist

>>15867368

>>15831281
You should read Taleb. You'll love his take on religion.

>>15814894
Unironically read Taleb. He will give you a appreciation of religion and give new meaning to the concept of faith, which is not epistemic.

https://medium.com/incerto/we-dont-know-what-we-are-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-religion-3e65e6a3c44e
https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-be-rational-about-rationality-432e96dd4d1a
https://medium.com/incerto/no-worship-without-skin-in-the-game-70b4aa341092
https://youtu.be/VuJD5Zfqti8
https://youtu.be/XAbSmTGJhEA
https://unherd.com/2019/03/why-god-needs-skin-in-the-game/

Thoughts?
>When I last met Alison Wolf we discussed this dire problem with education and illusions of academic contribution, with Ivy League universities becoming in the eyes of the new Asian and U.S. upper class a status luxury good. Harvard is like a Vuitton bag or a Cartier watch. It is a huge drag on the middle-class parents who have been plowing an increased share of their savings into these institutions, transferring their money to administrators, real estate developers, professors, and other agents. In the United States, we have a buildup of student loans that automatically transfer to these rent extractors. In a way it is no different from racketeering: one needs a decent university “name” to get ahead in life; but we know that collectively society doesn’t appear to advance with organized education.
>She requested that I write to her my thoughts about the future of education—as I told her that I was optimistic on the subject. My answer: b**t is fragile. Which scam in history has lasted forever? I have an enormous faith in Time and History as eventual debunkers of fragility. Education is an institution that has been growing without external stressors; eventually the thing will collapse.

>>15781335
Reading a single page of Antifragile will give you more knowledge than a the entirety of White fragility. Although, Diangelo does have her moments:
>I believe that white progressives cause the most daily damage to people of color
>Unfortunately, the prevailing belief that prejudice is bad causes us to deny its unavoidable reality.
>I grew up in poverty and felt a deep sense of shame about being poor. But I also always knew that I was white, and that it was better to be white.
>White progressives do indeed uphold and perpetrate racism, but our defensiveness and certitude make it virtually impossible to explain to us how we do so.

>>15780756
Imagine seething over his refutation of IQ.

>>15780560
>IQ
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39

>Bad thing happen sometime

HOL UP
are there actually people on this board who think of this midwit as anything more than an arab jbp?

>>15415101
>IQ
I seriously hope you IYIs don't believe this

>>15334467
>IQ tests