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Didn't sound very basic. "butt-purchasing" sounds like quite a stretch. And Taleb is a confirmed provocateur.

• calcifer 7y ago
  > And Taleb is a confirmed provocateur. Confirmed by who? When? How?
  • pbreit 7y ago
    Stuff like this: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1160560285805096960 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1160560285805096960
  • ldiracdelta 7y ago
    Just read his books. Brilliant, but clearly incendiary.
• FireBeyond 7y ago
  And happens to love Tesla. Until he got to experience their customer service: "First day driving a @TeslaMotors. Something else! I hope I will never ever have to drive a nonelectric car." (https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/897402998787330048?lang=en https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/897402998787330048?lang=e...) "There are 150K-200K car fires per annum. You take one event & an emotional statement of an actress & turn it into a statement about the safety of @Tesla. And this is 2018." (https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1008365860057120770?lang=en https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1008365860057120770?lang=...) "But they can show evidence of smear campaign (there is) using my Tesla/NonTesla test." (https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1018509262085996545?lang=en https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1018509262085996545?lang=...) "Tesla might not be a flawless diamond, but you could smell a smear campaign by the usual culprits, the propaganda machine for middlebrow called the New York Times, heavily compromised in its subservience to Saudi Barbaria/Oil lobbies." (https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1066683244295397376?lang=en https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1066683244295397376?lang=...) The "OMG someone said something bad about Tesla, let's question their motives"/"the shorts!" reflexes need to stop.