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How can one philosopher be so right?

>> No.11810042
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11810042

>get in loser, we’re saving masculinity

>> No.11810057

>>11810020
The only thing he was been right about is everything he says relating to masculinity. everything else is false

>> No.11810065

Self-help tier. Y'all really need fathers

>> No.11811662

>>11810065
Yeah, i need a father..

but can i choose one? if so, i want a stocky one, kinda like a teddy bear, that gives great hugs..

>> No.11812871

>>11810020
Based Arab philosopher

>> No.11813371

>>11810020
By saying only obvious things. He's playing on easy mode.

>> No.11813394

>>11812871
>Phoenician child sacrificer
Fixed that for you

>> No.11813565

>>11810020
Why are Meds so based? Taleb, Nassr, Jorjani etc., they are all leagues above any "western" philosopher at the moment.

>> No.11813568

>>11810065
>Y'all
>telling others they need fathers

>> No.11813605

>hurr what don't kill me makes me stronger

>> No.11813691

>>11813605
thats Nietzsche you idiot

>> No.11813704

>>11813371
you do know his books are a simplified, narrative version of actual serious mathematical work on probablity theory right?

>> No.11813706

>>11810042
/fitlit/

>> No.11813816

>>11813704
He doesn't like you

>> No.11813822

>>11813394
I see you!

>> No.11813845

>>11810020
lack of hair allows maximum philosophy rays to enter the frontal lobe

>> No.11814339

>>11813691
it's one very short maxim from a small section of nietzsche's many works
it's also the entirety of taleb's five books

>> No.11814343

>>11814339
But it's a different take with specificity and an understanding of how that is explicitly related to modernity. Also, he's absolutely based

>> No.11814348

>>11813845
this, based scienceposter

>> No.11814396

>>11810020
I see this guy posted around here a lot. Where do I start with him? I’ve already heard of Black Swan but that’s it.

>> No.11814586

>>11814396
That's probably where you should start.

>> No.11814593

>>11814396
Don't take the Taleb threads seriously, he's our most recent meme now that Peterson is on his way out. I think it may just be one or two people who constantly post about him, too. We don't actually like him or think he has anything interesting to say.

>> No.11814599

>>11814593
t. GMO shill

>> No.11814605

>>11814396

Of his books, I'd avoid starting with Fooled by Randomness or The Bed of Procrustes. Any other would do nicely. That said, all are worth reading. The former is a little dry. The latter is best thought of as a sort of appendix to his entire project.

>> No.11814610

>>11813565
> he hasn't reached Negarestani tier yet

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11814636

Capital is bearable.

>> No.11814660

>>11814610
Okay, redpill me on this guy, please. Is he a meme? I only heard about him in the context of the "Iranian Zizek".

>> No.11814708

>>11814660

He wrote one very good book. The rest of his work has been a mixed bag.

>> No.11814725

>>11814660
He's overrated.

>> No.11815011

>>11814708
what book, Black Swan?

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>>11814593

>> No.11815093

>>11810020
I still don't get why he hates Economists and Social scientists so much.

>> No.11815113

>>11815093
cause its pseudoscience and the ppl in these areas are very pretentious

>> No.11815130

>dude, you like, can't predict things

whoa, such arab wisdom. i love islam now.

>> No.11815151

>>11815130

He basically BTFO the entire modern portfolio theory in finance and proved Scholes got his famous Black-Scholes-Merton formula for options from older scientists and a guy who wrote a bestseller on gambling

It seems obvious we can't predict things, but huge parts of economics and finance are based on predicting return and risk

>> No.11816363

>>11814396
Honestly, the only writer I seriously recommend reading all of his works in chronological order. FbR is extremely light and reads very easily, BS is fucking amazing and drives home the point, TbofP is good and should be read last or skipped (most are derived from other writings or books, A-F changed my world view entirely, and I haven't read SitG.

>> No.11816373

>>11815093
they're fragile, ever punch a social scientist? glass jaws, all of them.

>> No.11816437

>>11815113
No it’s not... that’s the most fallacious claim he makes.

Economics is not about greed. It’s about analyzing how people organize resources and institutions in a society. It is integral to the development and structure of modern society.

Finance is the area with greed.

>> No.11817030

>>11815151
Can you point me towards more on that Scholes thing?

>> No.11817320

>>11815093
Because sociology has too small a dataset to provide a prediction with a reasonable standard deviation. You are looking at a handful of cultures which are quickly becoming homogeneous (or at very least nowhere near statistically independent) over less than 100 years with good data. And not just that but the 100 years studied are unprecedented so you must either conclude it's an awful dataset or that nothing will ever be predictable in which case the whole science is useless. Macro economics has the same problem. Micro seems fine