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What do I need to read to become as smart as Taleb?

>> No.13935566

>>13935561
Books that require an IQ of <120 to comprehend.

>> No.13935586

>>13935561
Taleb is a graceless, tactless child who made half his work about trying to "disprove" IQ by applying needlessly complex and obscure statistical analysis to it when all you had to do was just look at the graphs to see that it's terrifyingly valid.

>> No.13935621

>>13935561
roman political philosophers and humanists

>> No.13935623

>>13935561
Be born arab.

>> No.13935625

>>13935566
Fuck off retard
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
>>13935586
Another jealous retard

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>>13935625
>medium.com

>> No.13935637

>>13935625
>https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
This is pseudomathematical, pseudostatistical drivel. Taleb literally doesn't know what he's talking about here & obviously has an axe to grind.

>> No.13935639

>>13935631
>>13935637

It is a piece written by Professor Taleb—a leading intellectual.

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>>13935561

Start by visiting Umberto Eco's library

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Rate Taleb's primary library. (His academic books are quarantined elsewhere)

>The general idea is to work in the presence of real texts (mostly in the original) that remind you of Lindy, instead of the jelly compotte of academic wailing.

>> No.13935665

>>13935655
Is there a higher res photo or is his bookshelf indexed?

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>>13935665

Not that I know of, but here's a close-up of part of it.

>> No.13936665

>>13935561
Don’t waste your time with that self-hating Arab.

>> No.13936676

>>13935623
>>13936665

>Inb4 some Taleb fan says “but he looks like my Swedish grandfather”.

>> No.13936789

>>13935692
Seems like a classics buff. Heard he reads ancient Greek as well.

>> No.13936805

He's very well-read and even more-so articulate. I'd say:
The Shmoop of random Bible Books
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1-3
Captain Underpants
The Complete Works of Christopher Hitchens
12 Rules for Life
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k
Sapiens
The Ben Shapiro Books
Dave Rubin's book
Stefan Molyneaux's books
Transcripts of Joe Rogan's best podcasts
Some of the critique threads on /lit
and Antifragile/Black Swan

>> No.13936855

>>13936805
Just finished sapiens, it was repetitive and pop sci tier but not that bad desu

>> No.13936859

He has a reading list