Is this insightful to the anarchist?

[Anonymous No.10458645]

[Anonymous No.10458652]

only insofar as it is an argument against highly centralized government. taleb argues that decentralized government is antifragile and that its a good thing to be antifragile.

[Anonymous No.10458656]

>>10458652

OP should be aware there are many bad things which are antifragile as well such as the feminist hydras I went to uni with; being antifragile is good for the thing being so but competing antifragile systems can cause a lot of harm (including anarchic societies).

[Anonymous No.10458662]

>>10458652
I've read the book, but hoping this will evoke a discussion. I thought systems science has said that specialization and hierarchy are necessary for complex systems.

[Anonymous No.10458664]

I read two NNT books and 9/10ths of it were spent on anecdotes about how smart he is

unironically one of those authors that you could just read the summary for

[Anonymous No.10459175]

>>10458664
he actually advocates skimming parts of his books and says that he does that for other authors

[Anonymous No.10459202]

Taleb's career:
Taleb: "here's a thing IYI economists don't know"
actual economists: "well, actually everybody in the field knows this, this is nothing new or original"
Taleb: "shut up, you imbecile interventionista, I bet you don't even deadlift"

[Anonymous No.10459293]

>>10458662
specialization and hierarchy are necessary for complex systems that exist to support specialization and hierarchy

[Anonymous No.10459327]

>>10459202
how can one man be so based

[Anonymous No.10459441]

>>10459293
all social structures are hierarchies of some sort

[Anonymous No.10459505]

>>10459441
I think so too. If we look at the animal kingdom some are more egalitarian as others though. Spotted hyenas are notorious for their hierarchy, while African painted dogs and dholes are said to be more egalitarian.

[Anonymous No.10459506]

>>10459441
Not necessarily. A vast amount of social relationships are mutually reciprocal, if not explicitly cooperative. Even within capitalism, we can see basic communal relationships, like between suburban neighbors, as being basically non-hierarchical.

[Anonymous No.10459512]

>>10459506
>he thinks that suburban monstrosities have mutual relations with each other
you don’t own a home and have never dealt with those power dynamics first hand, its not equal

[Anonymous No.10459540]

Read Mark Vugt

[Anonymous No.10459860]

>>10458645
>not getting into Dadaist epistemology first

[Anonymous No.10460061]

>>10459202
>Taleb hates and is jealous of gymfags
>Taleb mocks people for not deadlifting
Which one is it, shills?

[Anonymous No.10460163]

>>10460061
He called them gymrats but it is edited in later versions

[Anonymous No.10460171]

threadly reminder that Lebs are NOT arab