/lit/ - Literature

>>12822181
Nassim Taleb: Antifragile concluded the philosophy, nature and theology by finaly showing and proving what actually works in real world what doesn't
beware that Taleb is too based for /lit/ as he invalidates everything they spent their whole life searching for, so anons feel personally and insanely butthurt about him

/lit/ is ripping apart this man's literary reading list
http://web.archive.org/web/20100726061952/http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/favbooks.html

>>1250536
kid, do you even lift?

>>12437265
depends on your definition of rationality
>The only definition of rationality that I found that is practically, empirically, and mathematically rigorous is that of survival –and indeed, unlike the modern theories by psychosophasters, it maps to the classics. Anything that hinders one’s survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or general level is deemed irrational.
https://medium.com/@gore.burnelli/how-nassim-taleb-changed-my-mind-about-religion-d832349c510

karl popper
nassim taleb

>>12388229
taleb: Antifragile

>>12386305
the best and most solid philosophy over the ages was conceived and assembled by doers, often with quantitative background and real-world experience, not by virgin theorists closed in ivory towers
you are overstating the impact of pure humanities venture and understating the potential your background gave you in having strong analytical mind to filter out quickly mountains of bullshit pseudointelectual philosophy/lit from the ones containing timeless merit in wisdom.
study pic related

>>12363963
kiss goodbye to revenues stream from cool wine aunt audience
this man put skin in the game to back up his public statement
pic related is proud of you

>>12337202
taleb: antifragile (everything from him, basically) and kahneman:thinking fast and slow.
You will find plenty of good aditional sources referenced in Antifragile

trader in financial markets

>>12185334
you will fuck up your head and perception of probability, randomness and ignore the signifficance of fundamentally unpredictable rare events (black swans).
events and matters of importance in real world are very rarely normally distributed (in a gauss distribution) we live in extremistan, not mediocristan
read instead The Black Swan from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
t. quant from big pharma and trader

>>12133364
>as coherently and with a scientific foundation as Pinker.

>>11848312
>Tfw the system is at peak fragility

Start reading Cicero.

>>11774589
They might not like it, but this is what peak /fitlit/ performance looks like.

Never read a book whose best chapter you can't recite while deadlifting.

>>11567660
He has skin in the game.

Wash your penis

>>11489240
Read Taleb, become antifragile

>>11479518
Become antifragile.

>>11468655
>pic
Are you too awaiting the day the n - 1 empire is rolled back out of the Mediterranean?

>>11436853
The Complete works of Taleb

>>11428688
Thanks Taleb

Be Antifragile