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Times like these prove just how important he is.

>> No.14876268

based arab man, knows that unexpected things may happen sometimes

>> No.14876533

>>14876261
cute arab

>> No.14876785

>>14876261
Lick his hairy arab buttcrack some more OP.

>> No.14876804

>>14876261
Squid-ink Man is based.

>> No.14876854

>>14876261
True. I guarantee he's been gloating lately.

>> No.14876873

Who is that?? David Bentley Hart. He's got two threads going right now. Good for you David. I'm going out to buy your book right now.

>> No.14876893

>>14876873
Some Jihadist

>> No.14876902

>>14876268
Imbecile who didn't get it.

>> No.14876907

>>14876902
OoOoooohhh unexpected things happen oOoooOohhh i'm so arab and smart oOOOooOohhhh

>> No.14876915

David Bentley Hart isn't Arab. But I heard he supports Berney Sanders.

>> No.14876923

>>14876907
Delusional imbecile.

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>>14876261
>Times like these prove just how important he is.

>> No.14876937

>mfw I bought €5000 worth of stocks yesterday

Surely we will recover, right?


right?

>> No.14876954

>>14876937
You're an idiot.

>> No.14876961

>>14876937
Although you should have bought at 29,000 to really get the full experience.

>> No.14876968

>>14876261
I loved The Satanic Verses

>> No.14876972

>>14876954


Nah at the end of the year I'll have a nice yield. The market always bounces back

>> No.14876977

>>14876937
lmao, the pandemic will last from 3-6 months minimum, we are nowhere near the bottom of it

>> No.14876981

>>14876261
What's the tl;dr of each of his books?

>> No.14876993

>>14876981
bad unexpected things happen and normal economic models don't account for those

>> No.14876996

Salmon Rushdie ??? I thought that was David Bentley Hart in that picture.

>> No.14877002

>>14876972
lmao an even bigger idiot.

>> No.14877003

>>14876268
>>14876907
>>14876993
Imagine getting filtered by the ultimate midwit.

>> No.14877005

No its Slovak zizek.

>> No.14877013

>>14877003
look, being arab and angry is not a legitimate intellectual position

>> No.14877021

>>14876981
Black Swan demolishes the positivist approach to decision making, risk management, economics, etc. Antifragile solves the problem by analyzing structural fragility rather than forecasting. Skin In The Game deals with the fundamental issue of capitalism, the issue that causes increased fragility, political and individual implications.

I'm missing a lot, been a couple of years since I read these.

>> No.14877024

>foreskin in the game
what did he mean by this

>> No.14877040

That's a euphemism for copulation between fat Tony and his girlfriend Lindy.

>> No.14877044

Almost 30 posts and not a single attempt at substantively discussing any of his theories or refuting his arguments without ad hominem attacks with one small exception (>>14877021)

>> No.14877051

I was mostly referring to his rants on IYI BS vendors being dangerous (see virtually every western government unable to do anything while experts play it down by saying "just another flu bro")

>> No.14877081

Could've put it in a pamphlet. Trailing two percent stop loss on your equity investments and keep cash on the sidelines.

>> No.14877130

>>14876261

I'm not sure the Corona is a black swan event. As it stands it is merely improbable, in order to become a black swan it would need to change what is seen as normal in some way.

>> No.14877135

>>14876907
Cope

>> No.14877189

>>14877003
So what's so great about what he said?

>> No.14877213

>>14877130
corona may change how supply chains are considered globally, currently the US is medically cucked to china

>> No.14877220

>>14877130
It's definitely a black swan event for the financial markets.

>> No.14877242

Nothing great. Just marketing and pumping so someone can make money selling books and talks. Read Ecclesiastes and the book of proverbs and put this nonsense to bed.

>> No.14877244

>>14877044
It's pretty simple, rationalism itself creates fragility, so any planning or reaction is simply replacing one form of fragility with another.
There is no antifragility in rationalist/technicalist systems, it is a thing-in-itself as the very system opposes our nature and can only serve to progressively divide us from the truth..

>> No.14878026

>>14876261
Looking a little chunky, habibi. Too much hummus and not enough deadlifts.

>> No.14878045

>>14876268
>>14876533
>>14876785
>>14876893
>>14876907
>>14876915
>>14877013
>>14878026

Maybe you don't know this but Taleb is NOT an Arab, he's a Phoenician. He's from Lebanon where the people are Phoenician. Arabs do not exist in Lebanon.

>> No.14878049

>>14878045
Yeah whatever goatfucker

>> No.14878068

IS THAT A?.....NOOOOOOOOOOO A BLACK SWAAANNNNNNNN

MY STOCKS I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAANNNNEEEEE

>> No.14878079

>>14876261
will he trigger the arabic rennaisance?

>> No.14878159

I thought Phoenicians were from Arizona ? I thought Canadians mobbed Arizona? I never heard that people from Lebanon were moving to Arizona.

>> No.14878177

>>14878159
Lebanon is in Kentucky, so is Warsaw and Bethlehem

Were the Mormons right?

>> No.14878181

>>14878177
Bagdad, too.

>> No.14878354

Mexico, Missouri
Baghdad, AZ

>> No.14878794

>>14876261
Behold - a black swan.

>> No.14879049

All these business channels on cable dropping the phrase Black Swan but why don't they book Taleb as a guest do redpill on the subject? Are they swarthyphoenicianphobic?

>> No.14879115

This guy has literally never said anything of value. He's like those new age gurus talking about cosmic quantum energies and shit. It might sound deep if you're a retard, but that's about it.

>it's like, we can't really predict some events and things can get real wacky allahuakbar

Wow, so deep. Thanks mister wise arab guy.

>> No.14879135

>>14879115
Samefag schizo who either didn't read Taleb (pbuh) or got filtered

>> No.14879160

I work at a bookstore and the only people that buy this guy's books are soulless bugmen.

>> No.14879170

>>14879160
post your chubby fat onions face

>> No.14879171

Taleb is literally a PC version of someone like Stefan Molyneux. A midwit pseud with a horde of retarded fans who think he's a genius.

>> No.14879181

>>14879171
He is a genius. He's been making nothing but money.
He's a wall street trader except he didn't scam his fans. He told his fans to sell.

>> No.14879189

>>14879181
>He told his fans to sell.
got a link?

>> No.14879278

>>14879170
I'm actually a fairly chiseled med. Either way, his fanbase are a bunch of human insects. We put his books in the pop-science and pop-business sections.

>> No.14879419

That's the section I found them in at the used book store whooowho saved like 15$ on two.

>> No.14879695

>>14876907

this is what happens whenever an anglo or german isn't the smartest dude

>> No.14880125

This guy loves having pictures taken of him. Like 6 different threads with 6 different pictures. MOFO loves looking at himself or something.

>> No.14880168

>>14879171
>Taleb is literally a PC version of someone like Stefan Molyneux
lol no read more

>> No.14880789

>>14876937
Eventually.

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>the fucking Twitter arab is right again

>> No.14881424

>>14876261
>>14878045
Is this some kind of falseflag?

>> No.14881425

>>14876968
That's Rushdee, honee

>> No.14881456

>>14876268
Well not gonna lie it's not a bad heristic to obey under

>> No.14881459

>>14876261
Based, actually stocked up a few weeks earlier before this and I'm goin full comfy NEET mode rn.

>> No.14881472

>>14877021
Yep this is good info. I like his approach with using heristis for antifragility too. I think this dude suffers from depression and his books for whatever reason give that vibe.

>> No.14881491

>>14881472
> I think this dude suffers from depression and his books for whatever reason give that vibe.
Elaborate?

>> No.14881594
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>>14876261
He's right about everything but he can't cope with the fact that Aryans are superior to East Meds

>> No.14881651

>>14876261
:3

>> No.14883059

Doesn't seem like Salmon Rushdie would be given to depression ??

>> No.14883888

>>14876261
looks like groyper

>> No.14884568
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BASED

>> No.14884614

>>14884568
Basé

>> No.14884741

>>14884614
Kissed/Fucked

>> No.14885216

>>14876268
based arab man
>if you put all of your eggs in one basket you’re bound to lose sometime

>> No.14885523

Muh 20 books in 20 days
and that's what he comes up with, eggs in one basket.

>> No.14886003

>>14885523
>>14885216
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-q8gHe414s

>> No.14886121

>>14876268
>fat
>tailed
>distributions

>> No.14886222

>>14876977
You realise the stock market is all about information and expectation, right? This shit is already priced in.

>> No.14886274

>>14886222
i'm sure markets are salivating at all those trillion dollar injections you and me will provide

>> No.14886279

>>14876268
>arab
IMBECILE

>> No.14886280

>>14876923
Stop trying to talk like him you parrot faggot

>> No.14886281

Lebanon is a Phoenician country not arab.

>> No.14886297

Anyone know his views on index funds?

>> No.14886349

>>14886281
To be honest this is a minor detail. It's like saying somebody is a Berber not an Arab, or a Mestizo not a Mexican, or a Hmong not Chinese. He's genetically close enough to Arabs to be considered an Arab.

>> No.14886360

>>14886349
Maybe genetically, but genetics is not the only thing that determines identity. Taleb doesn't believe Lebanese people speak """Arabic""" but Lebanese. He says Lebanon has more in culture and tradition with Greece and Turkey than with Saudi Arabia. He's not wrong either.

>> No.14886430

>>14876261
Taleb, a closeted homosexual, is well aware of the fat-tail consequences of such a lifestyle and thus chooses inceldom over ruinous uncertainty.

>> No.14886432

>>14886349
>He's genetically close enough to Arabs to be considered an Arab.
imbecile

>> No.14886436

>>14879171
damn never seen someone get filtered this hard

>> No.14886474

>>14886274
Yeah you don’t understand what I said

>> No.14886512

>>14877220
It's not. Pandemics aren't improbable events. Coronavirus suits more the definition of "grey rhino".

>> No.14886579

Imbeciles, stop arguing and go buy my books. Your going to be quarantined and you'll want books with profound, erudite, scholarly gobbledygook ; written by a donnish Arab with Greek and Turkish tendencies.

>> No.14887226

>>14886281
Carthago delenda est, fucker

>> No.14887392

>>14876261
If you had any place on /lit/ you would have read Herodotus and have no time for some washed up sandnigger trader cashing in on shlf-help memes

>> No.14887540

>>14876261
is he antifragile to COVID-19?

>> No.14887936

>>14876261
Is that a picture of Giga Chad's grandfather?

>> No.14888140

>>14876261
Ugly, untalented semite.

>> No.14888548

>>14878045
Arab, Phoenician, Sandnigger. What's the difference, guy?

>> No.14888734

He read hundreds of books. More than any other person in Arizona. One guy came close but he's no longer a Phoenician, he moved to South Dakota.

>> No.14888757

>>14878045
go back to twitter nassim

>> No.14889059

>>14888548
Phoenicians are white?

>> No.14889070

Usually tanned. Arizona sun is unrelenting.

>> No.14889455

>>14889059
in what universe?
certainly not this one

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>>14876261
GUYS PHOENICIANS ARE WHITE
THE US GOVERNMENT EVEN SAYS SO

>> No.14889509

>>14889482
So the spanish aren't white but afghans are...
They should switch those two.

>> No.14889519

>>14889509
you aren't white unless your ancestors were colonial americans

>> No.14889531

>>14889519
That ain't what the graph says
>>14889482

>> No.14889549

>>14889531
The whiteness census maps from ZOG are just there to make shitskins feel better about themselves.

>> No.14889555

>>14889549
Ok

>> No.14889561

>>14889555
it's primarily there so Jews can say
>OY VEY GOYIM WE ARE WHITE TOO

>> No.14889563

>>14889561
Ok

>> No.14889695

>>14889549
Its not working. I still feel like shit.

>> No.14889756

>>14889482
>Spain isn't white
>Sudan is
The CIA isn't even trying anymore.

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>>14889756
I'm guessing Spain is "Hispanic"
Should've included Portugal too in that case

>> No.14889794

>>14889786
t. Alberto Barbosa

>> No.14890021

>>14889482
>North Africa
>ALL of the Middle East
This has to be a joke right

>> No.14890105

>>14890021
Nope. It's all a massive PSYOP against whitey.

>> No.14890139

Imbeciles. This thread is about the Black Swan and Antifragile. Books by Salmon Rushdie.

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>>14886222

>> No.14891446

>random thing happen so we need things that likes it when random thing happen

>> No.14892020

>>14876261
I always thought this was Salman Rushdie lol

>> No.14892156

>>14892020
>all brown people look the same
yeah we know you're racist

>> No.14892235

>>14890759
he is right. If that were not the case, there would be arbitrage opportunities everywhere all the time

>> No.14892271

>>14876261
His attacks on the very smart coronavirus strategy of the UK's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty proves just how out of his depth he is.

>> No.14892277

>>14891446
Exactly. And did you have some leap puts in your folio/savings like based Taleb suggested?

>> No.14892283

>>14876261
He's actually just a fucking pseud who publishes ideas that only a midwit has to read to consider.

>> No.14892765

>>14892283
Fuck off imbecile.

>> No.14892942

>>14876261
he blocked me on twitter yesterday. he really doesn't take criticism well

>> No.14892973

>>14892942
post your criticism

>> No.14893400

Those who are in total disagreement with the arguments proposed in the books for clean sweeps and butterfly presses should reconsider being a powerlifter.

>> No.14893412

>>14889059
>>14889455
Yeah Lebanese is distinct from Arab but they are not "white" as they are not the result of Indo-European subsumption of western neolithic agrarians.

>> No.14893446

>>14893412
wasn't Carthage even worse than arabs? as in literal satanic civilization?

>> No.14893448

>>14893446
Oh yeah. They unironically worshiped Gods that were later described as demons in the Bible. Semites are bad people, but they aren't all Arab.

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>>14893448

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14893470

Stop making fun of him. Or you'll have to deal with me.

>> No.14893494

>reducing Taleb to "bad things happen sometimes, don't put all your eggs in one basket"
>ignoring that it's THE ENTIRE POINT of his books that this is "grandma's wisdom" but has been forgotten in the modern globohomo positivistic world full of IYI retards that will doom us all

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>>14893470
you had to open that can of worms...

>> No.14893532

>>14893494
but i already have a grandpa, i don't need a new angry arab grandpa

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14893561

Taleb (pbuh) is always right. Repent and leave your IYI ways behind, imbecile pseuds.

>> No.14893652

>>14892271
>very smart coronavirus strategy of the UK's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty

Is this bait or are you a herd immunity autist?

>> No.14893661

Based on the responses, this thread seems like it was posted on /pol/

SAD!

>> No.14893767

>>14876261
How many lindy presses should someone do if they want to reduce their fat tail in order to fit into a pair of pants?

>> No.14894125

>>14892973
I may have mentioned his arabic heritage

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>>14893561
Lol even Harris agrees with Taleb now. Why is he always right, bros?

>> No.14894173

how do you go about understanding his technical stuff like silent risk. post math reading list please

>> No.14894198

>>14894173
Khan academy

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>>14894173

>> No.14894253

>>14894125
>critique
anyway, nice one.

>> No.14894278

>>14894135
Post this on the humor thread

>> No.14894284

he's underappreciated because he's a hothead with a big mouth. people will see his ideas and similar traditionalist right wing "everyman" philosophies as the distinct intellectual landmarks of this new populist age of common sense and collective realization of the impossibility of infinite growth (bernie socialism and tucker nationalism representing competing visions of this post-neoliberal order)

He's been reading MPC lately too, writing a lot about "scale" and how difficult it is for us to adapt our intuitions to an overscaled world where everything can be normal until suddenly it isn't because local institutions don't function at a self-sustaining level. it's becoming an issue of sovereignty and national security at this point, and populist localism and traditionalism is going to make a comeback as the obvious solution to these problems and in response to inevitable economic downturn and recent supply chain threats making the stakes crystal clear, proving taleb right yet again.

>> No.14894285

should i read popper? or david stove?

>> No.14894293

>>14894285
Study the Bible

>> No.14894302

>>14894293
i m jewish

>> No.14894312

>>14894302
Study the Bible and fix that.

>> No.14894372

>>14893453
>gabish
The levels of cope when he posted this lmao

>> No.14894407

>>14894285
Popper then Soros then Taleb

>> No.14894741

>>14894284
>he's underappreciated because he's a hothead with a big mouth.
For me, it's because I wasted my time reading The Black Swan and Antifragile. Two books that could easily be summed up by two short blog posts. He rambles so much with stupid anecdotes/trivia, that eventually he ends up stretching the core concepts to the point of making them sound silly. You can spot a lot of sloppy/inconsistent writing if you scrutinize it.

Overall, I think what he says is reasonable, for the most part. But if you've read some essential philosophy, don't waste your time, you won't learn anything new.

>> No.14894820

The Swedish Investor on you tube puts it all in a nice little 15 minute box.

>> No.14895980

>>14894741
But then you'd be missing out on the aphorisms and rules of thumb that make Taleb great. Don't be a bugman striving for maximum optimization at all times. You obviously didn't absorb the core of Taleb's philosophy as well as you think you did.

>> No.14896004

>>14893453
Guy looks like an arab and acts like an arab, why doesn't he just go with it?

>> No.14896068

>>14896004
Saying this out loud in Greece can get you killed.

>> No.14896403

>>14894284
>he's underappreciated because he's a hothead with a big mouth
basically the anglo can't comprehend the arab

>> No.14896408

can you redpill me on Skallas? who is he? what's his relationship with Taleb? what's his endgame? what's a lindy?

>> No.14896419

>>14894284
true, but there's a lot of purging needed in traditionalism too, the whole
>stone building good
>new building bad
while it contains a lot of truth about our decadence, at the same time is too naive and has a very limited vision of the traditional, just copying the past and larping is not enough, a new tradition has to be has a light of its own and confronts what's around us, not just larps as if modernity didn't happen

>> No.14896424

>>14896068
weren't ancient greeks blonde with blue eyes?

>> No.14896454

>>14876261
>Times like these prove just how important he is.
I like his ideas on bottom up governance and theory vs practice but the evil jew lord Soro's theories on positive/negative reinforcement loops match the current situation better, especially the hoarders buying out stores and stock market drop.
Taleb's Black swan theory and his barbell investment strategy come off as just common sense, not very ground breaking...

>> No.14896468

>>14878045
Arabic is Lebanon's official and national language.

He's just another dude trying to be Edward de Bono and not doing it very well.

>> No.14896480

>>14876261
Little angry turk

>> No.14896553

>>14892942
he only blocks plebbitors.
you have to go back

>> No.14896677

>>14893453
this fella blocked me when i had like 30 followers and had never interacted with him. his block game is on point because i would've insulted him eventually.