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rspeer: "His description of this class of people is odd and improbable: some sort of foppish Englishmen" You aren't possibly referring to (from the article) "
by giardini 10y ago
rspeer: "His description of this class of people is odd and improbable: some sort of foppish Englishmen"
You aren't possibly referring to (from the article)
"... that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for."
, are you?
- rspeer 10y agoThere have been much more coherent articles written on that phenomenon. Taleb's description is like a reverse horoscope: a bunch of vague generalities and irrelevant details that you're not supposed to identify with. You're supposed to say "oh phew, that's not me", and maybe shift a little bit toward Taleb's worldview to make sure you're not the caricature he described. In the end, it doesn't convey anything. It's just a list of peeves and smarmy name-dropping. This guy is a bestselling author, but if this article is what comes out of his head unfiltered, he clearly benefits from editing.