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Nassim Nicholas Taleb mocked Lex Fridman's 2023 book reading list
- TotoHorner 4y agoDude is quite an asshole on Twitter lol. His books contain a lot of great ideas though (although, they could probably be 10 pages long... instead of 300)
- hunglee2 4y agoTaleb's behaviour on Twitter is incredibly discrediting to him - childlike tantrums, now childlike taunts. Hard to believe that someone could become a public intellectual with this level of emotional immaturity
- the_only_law 4y agoYeah I’ve always been a bit bewildered at how much he’s loved. Last I saw him on on twitter he was blocking and insulting people with rather benign disagreements with him.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> always been a bit bewildered at how much he’s loved He helps people with shallow domain expertise berate a powerful industry nobody loves.
- strangattractor 4y agoIf the list had included "The Black Swan" maybe Taleb would have been more charitable. Regardless - not sure if Lex needs any kind of "credentials" to be a good interviewer. His work stands on it's own.
- bennysonething 4y agoNothing better than being publicly patronising to someone way way younger than you. Maybe it's just me, but listening to lex, he approaches all guests with a kind of open "I don't know much, I want to hear what your have to say" type attitude, which makes this even worse. Taleb sounds like a dick.
- seydor 4y agoThe old cat lady of twitter reminds us of his existence
- strangattractor 4y agoAlso nothing like Twitter to bring out the a-hole in people.
- europeanguy 4y agoWhy is this gossip on HN? Why are we following who makes fun of whom? I thought this was for intellectually challenging content?