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The Intellectual yet Idiot
- Fricken 10y agoHe refers to Stephen Pinker as a 'psycholophaster'. Having never heard it before, I looked it up. It appears that Taleb made it up. The acronym PHAST stands for 'participatory hygeine and sanitation transformation'. 'The approach is a participatory learning methodology that seeks to help communities improve hygiene behaviours, reduce diarrhoeal disease and encourage effective community management of water and sanitation services' So my best guess is that Pinker is someone who applies this sort of methodology to mental hygiene. I'm not sure the term will catch on quite the way 'Black Swan' did.