As Taleb would say, debate the best possible version of your opponents argument, not the one most convenient to attack: "Take for instance the great Karl Poppe

As Taleb would say, debate the best possible version of your opponents argument, not the one most convenient to attack: "Take for instance the great Karl Popper: he always started with an unerring representation of the opponents positions, often exhaustive, as if he were marketing them as his own ideas, before proceededing to systematically destroy them" What I was saying was in the spirit of GP, which mentioned that he is sick of hearing people attack "science", and mentioned Nate Silver. I was pointing out that Nate Silver himself admitted of not doing "science" with respect with Trump, at least in part. Sure, Taleb has an ego, just like Wolfram. Taleb can also be a jerk, just like Linus. Everyone knows that. Dismissing him because of that is just an easy way out.