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Taleb is a popularizer. Authors who popularize science are typically not cited in academic papers. If a concept or result is used in the paper, the original sou
by SquishyPanda23 7y ago
Taleb is a popularizer. Authors who popularize science are typically not cited in academic papers. If a concept or result is used in the paper, the original source is typically cited.
- hash872 7y agoThis, plus his academic work which is not for a popular audience is supposedly pretty vanilla and doesn't rant and rave about how 'dumb' everyone else in the field is, how all of their models are garbage, etc. He does have professional papers in the academic space, they're just not confrontational or particularly iconoclastic- unlike his popular work where he portrays himself as a bold rebel against convention etc.
- floki999 7y agoTaleb loves to obfuscate simple ideas and arguments