/lit/ - Literature

literaly who

>>16176187
some arab e-celeb

The Bed of Procustes is one of the worst books I have ever read.

>>16176207
t. Seething wageslave and or psychologist

>>16176207
iyi filtered

>>16176177
>dude kurtosis lmao
Give it a rest.

I've seen every adhom imaginable against him and all kinds of mostly unrelated platitudes but never an actual refutation that addresses his ideas

>I AM NOT ARAB
>WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING
>Y-YOU IMBECILE

>>16176177
>Taleb
>not an Arab btw

>>16176177
I love this man

>>16176845
Huh, you love an Arab?

>>16176858
A Phoenician :)

I don't know anything about this man but there's only 1 important thing I NEED to know.

Who does he hate more, right-wingers or leftists?

>>16176235
You could say good ideas are antifragile

>>16176177
We always talk about what Taleb (which sounds kind of like “Arab” in an exaggerated Asian accent) has BTFO’d, but what does he actually believe in? besides his own “phoenician” ancestry.

>>16176235
And how often do you see shitposting Talebcucks actually elaborate on his ideas? Most don't understand the statistical consequences of skewness, kurtosis and heteroscedasticity and how to deal with them in analysis but just accept whatever Taleb's opinion is and spout it as fact

>>16176873
>right vs left dichotomy
Go back

>>16177003
fuck off chud, it's the only thing that's important these days

>>16176972
That's a misunderstanding of the concept
Ideas that are difficult to refute are robust
Their propagation and spread through controversy is antifragile
An antifragile thing is not just something that endures, it is something that gains from enduring
An idea that develops through criticism while retaining its essence would probably be antifragile but Taleb is too close-minded when it comes to well placed criticism since he lumps it in with all the shitty ad-hominems and the platitudes
>>16176997
Considering Taleb specifically focuses on those concepts in articles and most recently a book that doesn't get the same wide marketing his incerto stuff, which is more focused on the "practical" concepts and is more dedicated to a wider audience, I'd say it's pretty normal

>>16176995
here's what Taleb stands for
>skewness
holy shit there is asymmetry dude! assuming a Gaussian distribution (he never says normal distribution) is FLAWED
>kurtosis
bro I told you about fat tails bro.. risky tails!!!!
>heteroscedasticity
there is literally (LITERALLY) no way to robustly deal with this. GARCH is for IYI econometricians and IQ is a pseudo-scientific swindle

>>16177018
Neoliberalism makes left/right stuff obselete

>>16177064
>and IQ is a pseudo-scientific swindle
Yes

>>16177118
>IQ is a pseudo-scientific swindle, but beware: if *I*, the great Taleb, took an IQ test... you'd be very surprised!
total IYI

>>16177064
See, strawmen, strawmen and more strawmen
It's like you people get your entire understanding of Taleb's ideas through other people's Twitter feeds

>>16176187
>>16176202
(You)

>>16177130
You're blinded by rage at Taleb

/lit/ marxists eternally seething at the mere thought of based Taleb

>>16177138
Nah, I've read Fooled by Randomness and some of his papers and opinion pieces. Notice how I'm still the only one to answer the anon who asked what Taleb actually stands for? Probably because those three concepts that dominate Taleb's thinking are unfamiliar to pseuds like yourself?

>>16177067
What are you, retarded?

>>16177064
So he’s a statistician. What else does he believe in? You can’t have your entire worldview be statistics when statistics themselves are a tool not a belief.
>>16177018
It’s actually the greatest distraction these days, it’s for the politically and philosophically slothful

>>16177018
>>16177898
No really, go back

>>16176177
Le arab deadlifting meme man

>>16176177
You can do this by saying a lot of shit that people have a hard time debunking you. Whatever sticks after people decide they have better things to do you can lay claim on.

>>16176187

This Arab fraud genuinely believes that he's better than other people just because he deadlifts. He's a decent statistician, but also has the mind of some immature 18 year-old from /fit/. His comments on philosophy and politics are pretty trite and unremarkable.

>>16177064
IYI pseud who doesn't know wtf he's talking about

>>16177198
>I've read muh fooled by randomness
Way to out yourself as a total pseud

>>16181081
Your point being?

>>16181068
>>16181088
Retards

>>16181088
You've only read a short text and some hot takes, you have no understanding of what you're ranting about
It's the equivalent of writing critique of Plato based only on Charmides, Hippias Minor and Laches

Taleb is based as fuck

How are you hedging against tail risks in your own portfolios boys?

Taleb himself says OTM month out puts aren't a hedge

>>16181157
And there's still no trace of an argument in your post.

If supposed scientific papers are "hot takes" to you, you should probably stop defending him

>>16181068
Based deadlifting Arab math jock

>>16181220
You'd need to express an arguement because Taleb doesn't believe in anything you say he does

>>16181265
Yes yes very true Taleb doesn't believe that
>GARCH is for IYI econometricians and IQ is a pseudo-scientific swindle
If you know about either of these subjects, these opinions of him alone are enough not take him seriously

Why are Arabs and their sycophants so fucking stupid bros

>>16181271
He addresses econometrics more wholly in his bigger works
Dunno why he's sperging about iq more recently though, he believes that intelligence is one of the things that can be measured by our traditional statistics
You've yet to actually address his arguements against econometrics, all you've done is post one sentence greenposts with no substance

>>16181320
>asking someone to effortpost so Talebfags can respond with ebin deadlift and IYI memes
How about you cultists set the right example first?

>>16177018
Why do redditors keep trying to make "chud" a thing?

>>16176177
>is himself BTFO by the simple mention of the word 'arab'
The world would be less bright without him.

>>16176873
Back to Twitter, faggot

>>16181320
He's trying to distance himself from the Right.
>no no, I'm not a Nazi, I don't support NATIONALISM, I support squid-ink lindy Mediterranen localism.
>IQ is pseudoscience btw!

who is more annoying? taleb cultists or musk cultists?

>>16176873
Right wingers because he hates IQ and nords.

something something arab something something
sage

>>16176177
>/pol/ and /his/ content is relevant to the art of story and writing because I said "books"
No.