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Nassem Taleb is an arrogant asshole who can't write. I tried reading "The Black Swan" and gave up in a flurry of swearing after less than 100 pages because he
by hwestiii 8y ago
Nassem Taleb is an arrogant asshole who can't write. I tried reading "The Black Swan" and gave up in a flurry of swearing after less than 100 pages because he utterly failed to justify any of his breathless assertions with anything resembling an argument. Assertion after assertion with no reasoning linking them. Game to Silver on points. At least he can back up his arguments with explanations.
- vtail 8y agoSo Nassim Taleb's "Silent Risk"[1], a mathematical parallel version to Incerto, is not good enough? [1] http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/SilentRisk.pdf http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/SilentRisk.pdf
- SilasX 8y agoHah. IIRC, the Audible audiobook for Antifragile bleeped out all the swearing.