/lit/ - Literature

>>14095804
He looks like my father would if he ate at mcdonals every day

>>14095804
Yes

>>14095804
>or actually intelligent
IYI /lit/ imbeciles can't discern intelligence.

>>14095804
>I hesitate to give advice because every major single piece of advice I was given turned out to be wrong and I am glad I didn't follow them. I was told to focus and I never did. I was told to never procrastinate and I waited 20 years for The Black Swan and it sold 3 million copies. I was told to avoid putting fictional characters in my books and I did put in Nero Tulip and Fat Tony because I got bored otherwise. I was told to not insult the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the more I insulted them the nicer they were to me and solicit op-eds. I was told to avoid lifting weights for a back pain and became a weightlifter: never had a back problem since.
>If I had to relive my life I would be even more stubborn and uncompromising than I have been. One should never do anything without skin in the game. If you give advice, you need to be exposed to losses from it.
Does this sound like an intelligent man?

>>14096069
Don’t be so Lindy bro

>>14095804
he is not bad but he is entirely pre-occupied by his brave, non-arab persona. i imagine it can be quite tiresome to spend more than 10 minutes with him. also he makes fun of IYIs for talking about poor people but never hanging out with a cab driver. yet to me he seems to be the polar opposite, yet equally problematic. he will act like he is one of the guys with cab drivers, yet considering his wealth precludes him from experiencing the kind of existential plane a cab driver would inhabit, it makes this association rather awkward and filmsy.

>>14096080
That's all based though

>>14096466

this response is all you need to know

>>14095804
He's rigorous, which means he's good.

He also humiliates all other public "intellectuals" on Twitter.

>>14095804
His strong anti-gmo stance makes me question his credibility.

>>14096080

you're goddamn right it does

>>14096515
It's a point in his favour, actually.

>>14095804
>75000000000th Talab post

You guys shill for his publisher?
No one on lit really cares about pop-economics. Find an author with something original to say, and then shill them instead of this guy...

>>14096527
His methodology is bizarre. He says GMO’s should be resisted against because we don’t know enough about genes yet and we might accidentally cause global ruin.

The issue is, he says that a minor crisis like a few thousand people getting sick from modified apples is acceptable in light of all the benefits of GMO’s, but what if a GMO destroys humanity?

He doesn’t explain any possible way a GMO could destroy humanity though, just says “Who knows, we don’t know enough.” which is pretty stupid.

>>14095804
Very cringe and very Arab

>>14096594
Take a class on molecular genetics. One class should be enough to understand how GMOs can be potentially ruinous. It’s about risk vs. return. GMOs should require rigorous clinical trials and extensive longitudinal studies before they are determined to be safe for consumption, for the environment, etc.

>>14096781
Please give just one example of how a genetically modified apple can destroy the human race or at least kill billions of people.

>>14095804
He's both a meme and very intelligent.

>>14096753
t. imbecile

>>14096787
That’s a bit ridiculous. How can billions of people going to die from doing anything to apples? I don’t think things can become that extreme. But they’re still capable of doing a lot of damage, especially since rogue genes can become impossible to remove from the biological mesh once they’re out there.

Here’s a better example. Genetically modifying corn to produce pesticides in the stalk without putting it in the cob, only to find out later that our model for understanding corn genetics was wrong, and that the pesticides were being expressed in significant qualities throughout the plant because of unpredicted downstream effects. Now, there’s a biochemical hazard that’ll effect all livestock, nearly all corn syrup, all corn sold for production, all ethanol production, and of course, anybody who consumes any of those products. How can you calculate the damage caused to public health from such a mistake?

>>14095804
my favourite arab author

>>14096453
>>14096753
>>14096851

>>14096851
>>14096753
>>14096453
Fuck off, Taleb is Phoenician.
>>14096541
Sorry that we want to discuss the modern day Plato.

>>14096851
He is not an Arab, hardly anyone speaks Arabic in Lebanon.

>>14096959
>the modern day Plato
>Some rich asshole who repeats high-school level economics to the masses
Checks out.

NNT is incredibly based for the simple fact that he BTFO'd Jordan Peterson so hard I'm surprised he still has a job.

>>14096080
YES

>>14097283
economics doesnt actually get better when you study it at higher levels

>>14096594
>He doesn’t explain any possible way a GMO could destroy humanity though, just says “Who knows, we don’t know enough.” which is pretty stupid.
Look at this imbecile. Pickup a catastrophe theory, probability theory, and mathematical statistics textbook instead of the bullshit pseudo-literary garbage /lit/ has you consuming. Alternatively simply stop commenting on the REAL WORLD, only mathematician/DOers are allowed to discuss it, IYI.

>>14096953
>>14096959
>>14097260
gabishpilled

>>14096080
>Does this sound like an intelligent man?
Were you trying to imply it doesn't?

He's stupid but also very smart

>>14097371
>catastrophe theory
Want to know how I know you don't know what you are talking about?

>>14096787
The whole point of is argument is that we don't know enough about genetics to be taking the risk. Genetics are THE vector for everything that can go wrong with the human body. There are already lab results that show GMO food which is not tree nuts but has had tree-nut DNA introduced to it can cause allergic reactions in people with nut allergies, despite not being nuts. We don't know enough about our own genetics to play around with this stuff. No one can possibly predict the potential danger, because that information is unknown. The reality is that it could be possible, so why the hell risk it for profit? There's absolutely no benefit in the existence of GMO's - in fact, they are largely dangerous when you consider the fact that human beings already passed the carrying capacity of Earth, and we need artificial forces like technology to prop up our bloated, unnatural population. We're literally causing an extinction event simply because we're over-populated, and GMO's play a role in that over-population. They do nothing but make a handful of corporations profit, so why risk something that could be so dangerous until we know the risks?

The whole point is that no one is an expert enough, but you're arguing along the lines that, "If some non-experts on a cambodian silk-weavers forum can't give me a definitive answer, then it must be absolutely safe!" How can you be so stupid and intellectually irresponsible?

>>14097471
explain please

>>14095804
to properly read taleb's books you have to wait at least 25 years since their publishing

>>14095804
and another post about the self-hating Arab known as Taleb.

>>14096753
>>14096851
>>14100237

>>14095804
He was so up his own ass in The Black Swan it's hard to tell, should also use his hedge fund bucks to hire an editor.

>>14100254
kek

>>14100254
Arabists at genealogy websites lump Lebs as "Arab" even though they're 100% MED and don't even fucking speak arab

>>14100266
Has anybody been able to confirm that he actually made any money trading options? From what I heard he is more successful as an author than a trader.

>>14100716
He made his biggest money in trading in 2008 when everything went to shit, which just means his clients lost a lot less money than most.

>>14100744
What firm did he work at?

>>14100715
Cope harder Nassim

>>14095804
he's a midwit

anyone who dismisses IQ and Race can't be taken seriously

>>14101072
You posted cringe

>>14101072
Anon, what is wrong with his argument against IQ and Race? It seems sound to me, but I would be interested to see what you found wrong with it.

>>14101133
Don’t want to get into the race thing but he denies the very existence of psychometric intelligence (aka discrete IQ test)

>>14095804
Legendary author, thinker, mathematician, statistician, philosopher, professor of options and probability theory, Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

>>14101514
I think the anon was asking why is he wrong.

>>14096069
The irony is nassim is an IYI himself.

>>14102212
what?

>>14102212
More or less true it seems desu

>>14100715
intellectual yet Arab

>>14096080
Based

>>14102017
Shouldn’t have to explain why IQ exist lmao