/lit/ - Literature

>>14145417
Pinkerfag is 100x worse. Pure humanistic faux-optimistic materialism with some atheist flavour.

>>14145417
GET LOST IYI

the real question here we always wanted to ask ourselves: is assman leibnizian?

>>14145417
shut the fuck up ass.

ass

>>14145417
>>14145748
Fucking imbecile, leave!

>>14145417
Has he completed the system of Albanian Glowpositivism?

>>14145442
>>14146370
>Arab vs Jew
I think we already know who'd win that fight

>>14146516
A Phoenician.

>>14146529
An Arab

>>14146555
Taleb happens to be healthy (he works out and is skeptical of big pharma), he happens to handsome, he happens to be strong (he works out), he is good at learning and is very rational, he is fearless (he likes uncertainty after all), he will forgive your mistakes as long as you're not an imbecile, Taleb is a libertarian and fights for freedom, Taleb is well versed in philosophy, Taleb is Greek Orthodox, Taleb is a scientist, Taleb speaks multiple IE languages.

>>14145417

What do you guys have against Pinker ?

>>14146578
>Taleb is Greek
No he is an Arab

>>14146606
Just jealous incels.

>>14146612
Jew, Taleb is Lebanese with a bit of Greek admixture.

>>14146606
If he doesn't like Nietzsche, I have that against him.

>>14146606
I don't know. I think there are a ton of anti-rationalists on this site. I think they just don't like to face facts.

>>14146606
look at him

>>14146606
He was BTFO by Taleb

>>14146516
I hope the Arab

>>14146529
WE

>>14146606

>>14146750
Well, it all adds up now.

>>14146750
nauseating

>>14146767
>>14146834
i dont know how any of these shitlords who have pics online w epstein arent immediately shunned from public life

>>14146723
desu

>>14147116
You really don't know?

Can Pinker not conceive of how anhedonic and alienated the average person is, despite the fact that material living standards have improved in much of the world? "Pessimism bias" is often the result of a kind of protective skepticism which is necessary for individual identity. Just because there's less violence in the world doesn't mean it's improving at every level.

>>14147415
i mean i know just expressing disbelief
what do you know

>>14145417
>Question: Which author (living or dead) do you think is most overrated?

>Pinker: Friedrich Nietzsche. It’s easy to see why his sociopathic ravings would have inspired so many repugnant movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including fascism, Nazism, Bolshevism, the Ayn Randian fringe of libertarianism, and the American alt-Right and neo-Nazi movements today. Less easy to see is why he continues to be a darling of the academic humanities. True, he was a punchy stylist, and, as his apologists note, he extolled the individual superman rather than a master race. But as Bertrand Russell pointed out in A History of Western Philosophy, the intellectual content is slim: it “might be stated more simply and honestly in the one sentence: ‘I wish I had lived in the Athens of Pericles or the Florence of the Medici’.”

Damn, Nietzsche BTFO!

Pinker is obviously right in that for a rich jew there hasn't been a better time to be alive than today.

>>14147465
This strikes me as a horribly cursory reading of Nietzsche. Then again, there aren't many "good" readings of him, either, so his guess is as good as anyone's.

Pic related.
>>14145417

>>14147557
inb4 an extremist neo-Nietzschean beats pinker to death to fulfill the will to power and btfo liberalism once and for all

pinker has never had a thought in his life

>>14147557
>I am a superman: hard, cold, terrible, without feelings and without conscience. As you recommend, I will achieve heroic glory by exterminating some chattering dwarves. Starting with YOU, Shorty. And I might do a few things to that Nazi sister of yours, too. Unless, that is, you can think of a REASON why I should not.

Damn...

>>14147575
>übermensch
pinker is the incarnation of the last man though

Imagine what a fag world it would be if your options were Pinker and Nietzsche

>>14146555
>mediterranean
>fearless
Literally famous for being more cowardly than Northern Europe and putting self preservation above everything

>>14147575
How has Taleb responded?

>>14147557
*teleports behind u*

>>14147557
Lol. Nitchy btfo. I have definitely read his works and he says right there in Zarsthustra: superman kills everyone. What I want is a world where everyone kis each other. This is how I imagine the world that is free from my particular set of morals: totally without any.

>>14147465
>Nietzsche is responsible for literally every single rebellion against the liberal upper class
Holy shit. Boys get reading.

>>14147465
>the intellectual content is slim
lol. Nietzsche's collection of scrapnotes complied by his retard sister contains more "intellectual content" than both Russell's and Pinker's bibiliogrophy combined.

>>14146328
Nice

>>14147557
Nietzsche fan or not, you have to admit that if someone walked up to that kraut and said that to his face he would die on the spot.

>>14145442
Holy fuck taleb is a complete retard that hates science

He's a religion fundie that denies IQ and genetics

>>14146696
No he wasn't.
Taleb doesn't even accept IQ.
He's fucking retarded.

Pinker is based.
>>14146606
They're jealous of him

>>14147501
No. You’re just stupid and ignorant of the vast scholarship and ubiquity of reading. Try looking up the Journal of Nietzsche Studies if you strive to be more than a reactionary shitposter.

>>14147435
Living standards are stagnating in the west due to central banking and government intervention.

They're going to increase in the next 50 years though.
>>14147569
>t. asspained leftist

>>14148050
found the jew
>Behold, the Last Man

>>14148053
>reactionary
stop using this made up useless word

Taleb is absolutely fucking retarded on every level.

https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/nassim-taleb-on-iq/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1jsWrQu7CQ

>>14148055
Imagine not accepting IQ statistics and calling OTHERS jews.

>>14148058
whine more faggot

>>14148074
I bet you unironically use the term "reactionary" "neoliberal" and "trickle down economics" in everyday life and pretend you're not a massive pseud lmao

>lauded financial analyst
>thinks IQ research is a conspiracy

just goes to show that the people who supposedly understand our financial system don't know shit, especially if le ebil right wingers are involved. one of the most well respected economists in america today, krugman, said we'd be in a massive financial recession as soon as trump took office. utterly, eternally wrong

>>14148053
Okay. Thanks for the advice.

>>14148123
>one of the most well respected economists in america today, krugman
krugman is such a joke
fuck the nyt

>>14145417
saw one of this guy's ads at the gym. Who is he?

>>14147557
>Nietzsche's a do-do head 'cause I think he said bad things and made people hurt each other
>I can advocate violence, though

The sheer level of arrogance from these forgettable "public intellectuals" astounds me.

>>14147465
That History of Philosophy has done so much damage.

>>14146555
Cringe. Also the guy in the left doesn't even look that bad

>>14146606
He is a pseud who is loved by fellow pseuds. Perhaps even worse than the likes of the pseud sam harris and jordan peterson

>>14146516
Hopefully arab

>>14146606
>be anon whose life is completely miserable shithole
>blames society for his misery
NOOOO SOCIETY IS FAILING I AM THE PROOF OF IT I READ NIETZSCHE IM THE UBERMENSCH AMONG MOORTALS

>>14147501
you people read too much into his ramblings
he had some really good insight but he's not the mastermind you take him to be
just because a text is hard to read does not necessarily mean its deep

>>14148044
>hates science
Really? I didn’t know he was so based, guess I’ll read him after all

>>14147575
Why does pinker have so many photos of him with weird shit? Like what's the point?

>>14150744
Like, who decided to photograph him holding a brain and why?

>>14147575
I'd like to see that lip-wristed kike try and kill anyone. I doubt he even has the physical strength to rape a woman as he claims he could.

>>14150744
>>14150750
Cool photos to appear in magazines.

stop reading pinker

>>14150750
he's thinking about how nice it would be to have one of those

>>14145417
why are all jews the same? listening to pinker just gives you that eerie "he's one of them.." feeling. like even if you don't know he's jewish, you get that feeling that this guy is insincere, has a creepy ass voice, would smile while diddling some kids, etc. he just has THAT vibe

>>14145442
>Taleb shows no signs of having read Better Angels with the slightest attention to its content. Instead he has merged it in his mind with claims by various fools and knaves whom he believes he has bettered in the past. The confusion begins with his remarkable claim that the thesis in Better Angels is “identical” to Ben Bernanke’s theory of a moderation in the stock market. Identical! This alone should warn readers that for all of Taleb’s prescience about the financial crisis, accurate attribution and careful analysis of other people’s ideas are not his strong suits.

Even Taleb....

>>14150841
don't worry, nobody has

>>14150871
I read him in my linguistics 101 bird course.

>>14148050
IQ is genuinely retarded though.

>>14152462
>IQ is genuinely retarded though.
No, you're genuinely retarded. IQ is the best metric we have of general intelligence and its correlation with future life successes is indicative of its validity. Feel free to keep believing whatever idiot confirms our bias, though, as I'm sure you will.

>>14149210
This, didn't Russell even regret writing it and only did so because he needed the money or something?

>>14145417
psychology is a joke boys

>>14152462
>nignogs have low IQ
>retards have low IQ
>smart people have high IQ
I think IQ works pretty well

>>14146750
>The Three Shlomos

>>14149389
Nice strawman, dipshit. The ubermensch will be unhappy in any society which isn't rooted in master morality. Furthermore, the ubermensch is self-sufficient; the polar opposite of the sort you are describing.

>>14152462
Why do leftists deny science?
Leftism is a religious cult.

>>14150841
>>14150871
Coping pseuds

>>14152462
explain please

>>14148054
>They're going to increase in the next 50 years though.
For some

>>14147575
Imagine writing this and thinking that it was good

>>14152730
>ubermench
>creator of own values
>the evolution of man, heralding a new world beyond the old moralities of antiquity
>wants to live in a state of antiquated morality

It's like you fags never actually read a Nietzsche book in your lives

>>14147116
>this famous person met this billionaire at a dinner

Woah

>>14145417
I don't like Pinker because he is a pedo apologist and an academic hack, but he is right about Nietzsche.

I'll just leave this here https://youtu.be/PyZ_KMs79HU

>>14154664
I wish we had flags on lit.

>>14154073
>For some
for most

>>14150863
>The confusion begins with his remarkable claim that the thesis in Better Angels is “identical” to Ben Bernanke’s theory of a moderation in the stock market. Identical!
I agree, it's crazy to think that was the message. The real thesis was "um, genocide is actually nice, my superior skull shape says I'm right."

>>14146750
It's all so tiresome. Just once, it would be nice for /pol/ to be wrong

>>14147465
well, he's right. nietzsche was ultimately just a le wrong generation fag and so are his dickriders

>>14150863
It's easy to understand the Pinker vs Taleb fight when you consider their origins.

Steven Pinker is an American Jew, he is a member of the most powerful and prosperous ethnic group in the history of mankind. Is it any wonder he is an optimist? Taleb is a Lebanese Orthodox Christian who grew up during a civil war in his country that saw his ingroup losing power and prestige and increasingly disappearing. Is it any wonder he is more of a pessimist?

>>14148044
imbecile

>NOOOOOOOOOOO VIOLENCE IS BAD UNLESS IT'S BEING ENACTED BY THE US GOVERNMENT WHICH IS GOOD

there i just summarized pinker's whole career