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https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1142416150254575617

>> No.13344738

>>13344730
Based leventine arab bug man

>> No.13344748

>>13344730
these books probably all belong to his rich diplomat parents and he hasn't read a single one of them.

>> No.13344763
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>>13344730
It's only hot when women hold books

>> No.13344787

>>13344730
this guy's a huge pseud but I'd gladly take him over other pop "intellectuals" like harris and peterson any day

>> No.13344802
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Imagine having this guy as your uncle. That's the dream.

>> No.13344806

>>13344730
I haven’t read him and know nothing about him, but somehow I discern he’s a centrist midtier intellect with lukewarm boomer takes.
Feed him to a casually intellectual zoomer like Fuentes and it’d be like the Fargo woodchipper scene.
I don’t say this with any animosity, it’s just funny how this dude and others in his milieu posture, but the average 20 year old internet user probably gleaned more off 4chan alone than they’ll ever know.
5 volumes of “I know some things, but nothing that matters”.

>> No.13344819

>>13344730
Those poor unread penguins on that second shelf.

>> No.13344858

>>13344748
He's a leading intellectual of our times. A high end author and a former successful economist. You're a fucking dolt if you find it so hard to believe he might read his ass off.
>>13344802
OK now post your social media and we can comb over it for your dumbest, most inane posts. Let's go.

>> No.13344864

>>13344858
>OK now post your social media and we can comb over it for your dumbest, most inane posts. Let's go.

I wasn't making fun of him. I love the guy, and I love the idea of running uphill every once in a while.

>> No.13344867

>>13344858
>He's a leading intellectual of our times.
ahahahahaha

>> No.13344869

>>13344864
Yeah don’t worry that came across, OP is just an utter brainlet.

>> No.13344871

>>13344858
>OK now post your social media and we can comb over it for your dumbest, most inane posts. Let's go.
imagine being this asshurt about some e-celeb

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>>13344858
>He's a leading intellectual of our times.

>> No.13344894

>>13344730
I'm so excited to never read them!

>> No.13344897

>>13344867
>>13344886
His writings will be some of the only shit that comes from our era to be remembered in just 50 years. Considering that, which makes him a for-runner among authors, and yes what I said was correct.

>> No.13345083

>>13344897
Name a single salient concept he’s put foreward.

>> No.13345090

>>13345083
skin in the game

>> No.13345115

>>13344806
>making assumptions about someone you've never read from the OP of a shitthread

Sounds like /lit/ alright

>> No.13345283

>>13345083
shut the fuck up fragilista

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>>13345283
>>13345283
taleb chillout bro

>> No.13346325

>>13344730
Arabs like him are so based

>> No.13346342

>>13344763
bitch's face be scary

>> No.13347446

>>13344858
Go to bed, Nassim

>> No.13347899

>>13344858
Okay
https://twitter.com/28beanz

>> No.13347904

>>13346342
She looks Russian. Russian women are fucking scary. I would never date a Russian women.

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>>13344806
>Feed him to a casually intellectual zoomer like Fuentes

>> No.13348010

>>13347921
Are you laughing superciliously at a phraseology that you don’t grasp was intentionally humorous for the sake of driving home the point?
What does this tell you about your IQ?

>> No.13349248

>>13346325
NEVER call Taleb an Arab

>> No.13349768

>>13344858
>He's a leading intellectual of our times
That may be the case, but there is no way The Black Swan or Anti-Fragile needed to be 400 pages. I say this as a fan.

>> No.13350278

>>13344806
this and unironically

>> No.13350294

>>13344858
kek

>> No.13351739

>>13349248
The Phoenician internet defense force has arrived, I see.

>> No.13351866

>>13344730
Stupid sexy Taleb

>> No.13352274

>>13351739
Phoenicians never sacrificed children I swear

>> No.13352310

>>13349248
What do you mean ? He is a based (and redpilled) proud Arab man bro :)

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>>13352310
>>13346325

>> No.13354807

>>13345083
He explicitly said that he only finds the common threads in writings of other intellectuals and tries to weave it into a whole, that's what he did in Antifragile.