FOR THE RECORD, Financial crashes are not "black swan" events. I've never seen a black swan in my life, but I've seen two or three financial crashes. As far

FOR THE RECORD, Financial crashes are not "black swan" events. I've never seen a black swan in my life, but I've seen two or three financial crashes. As far as I can tell, Taleb is just a memer. His degeneration of late is hopefully cluing people in, though the compulsion to substitute memes for thought will continue. Hey, maybe that's what IQ is, a person's likeliness to think instead of resorting to memes? Maybe that's why Taleb hates it?