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This idea is expanded in Taleb's "Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons": https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surgeons-23b0e2cf6d52 https:/

• curiousgal 8y ago
  As much insight as he offers, I've always found Taleb's writing style to be vexing.
  • alexpotato 8y ago
    Once I realized his goal in life is to be seen as a philosopher and not an easy-to-read author, that helped me mentally adjust my filter to make him easier to understand.
    • eerwrq 8y ago
      His problem isn't that he's hard to understand. His problem is he loses his point halfway through a chapter while he rants against eggheads, bureaucrats, and anyone else he doesn't like. Like, I get his point that experience beats expertise, and some experts don't really know any more than the general public. But he drives the point so hard that his later work is unreadable. He'll devote more time to bullying some breed of academic than he will to making his actual point.
• andyidsinga 8y ago
  Good section in that article "A BS detection Heuristic"