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“To figure out if someone is an idiot, call him an idiot and check if he gets upset.” It’s intentional: https://mobile.twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1297163095341
by lindy2021 5y ago
“To figure out if someone is an idiot, call him an idiot and check if he gets upset.”
It’s intentional: https://mobile.twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1297163095341699072 https://mobile.twitter.com/nntaleb/status/129716309534169907...
- nickkell 5y agoHis reply to his own tweet is hilarious. He's playing chess whilst we're all playing checkers
- ckastner 5y agoI don't recall Taleb calling others idiots much in his book. I do recall Taleb admiring himself, though. A lot.
- sonthonax 5y agoHe’s just a pathological narcissist that functionally aliterate traders think is a philosopher. His books are mostly unoriginal fluff that could be expressed in a few pages.
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- conistonwater 5y agoI wonder if there is maybe some other, easier, way of checking if someone's an idiot.
- thinkharderdev 5y agoThis seems transparently ridiculous coming from someone as famously thin-skinned and pugnacious as Taleb.