/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14420350]

>In my dealings with people, I have noticed that I do not speak much to the middle sort, whether of intelligence or character. My contact with very simple as well as highly developed natures, however, presents no difficulty. I seem to resemble a pianist playing only the keys at the extreme ends of the keyboard and just having to make do without the rest. It’s either peasants and fishermen or people of the highest quality. The rest of my social dealings consist of arduous attention to the mundane—rummaging through my pockets looking for change. I often get the feeling that I am moving within a world for which I am not adequately equipped. - Ernst Junger

[Anonymous No.14420406]

Doesn't taleb talk about this all the time as well? Basically the middle path is the worst: better off alternating between extremes. "Barbell strategy"

[Anonymous No.14420420]

>>14420406
Dutton has also talked about this recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCFQG9sEF2A

[Anonymous No.14420448]

Another relevant meme.

[Anonymous No.14420455]

>>14420406
That's funny, seeing how Taleb's books are textbook midwittery, of the same tier as Sam Harris or Jordan Peterson's books.

[Anonymous No.14420467]

>>14420350
>>14420448
>No measure that fails 80–95% of the time should be part of “science” (nor should psychology — owing to its sinister track record — be part of science (rather scientism), but that’s another discussion).
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
>>14420455
Imbecile. Taleb destroyed both Harris and Peterson.

[Anonymous No.14420469]

>>14420350
Wrong version. 130 is still midwit territory.

[Anonymous No.14420482]

>>14420467
https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/nassim-taleb-on-iq/

[Anonymous No.14420491]

>>14420467
>Taleb destroyed both Harris and Peterson.
That might very well be the case (depending on what you mean by destroyed), but his popular books are still pseudo-intellectual midwittery.
They lack intellectual rigor and his rants about social sciences are pure projection.

[Anonymous No.14420518]

>>14420350
Does anyone have this picture but with the konosuba waifus?

[Anonymous No.14420536]

>>14420482
>https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/nassim-taleb-on-iq/
Taleb refuted Sean.
>>14420491
The books are popular because they are Lindy. He wrote them in a specific way so they would be popular and Lindy.

[Anonymous No.14420537]

>>14420469
This, as 145IQ Chad I can confirm.

[Anonymous No.14420604]

>>14420536
>Taleb refuted Sean.
sure he did
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1089722163660292096

[Anonymous No.14420628]

>>14420604
*yawn*
Taleb has already shown that there is no correlation between IQ and socioeconomic status — it predicts 0% of it.