Lol. Somehow people like you actually think this of Taleb. To reach people like you, we have to try other ways other than true substance. If Kahneman one of the

Lol. Somehow people like you actually think this of Taleb. To reach people like you, we have to try other ways other than true substance. If Kahneman one of the heroes of modern intellectual culture is friends with him and they receive each other well and he does not agree with your banal analysis of him, is that not good enough(?). Terrence Tao links to his fourth quadrant articles, is that man's clout not enough? Mandrelbrot too. I wonder how people like you get away with such utter mis-characterization of him? It was how people receive Taleb and Graham that I realized that one person's true identity doesn't matter and that people like you somehow exist contraire-chic indeed. Indeed your post is probably just tribal signalling. Subscribe to his FB, read his posts, you truly find an incredible man of genius. He can admit to be human. I don't know what else to say but when I see stuff like this about him(like valleywag people probably saw comments on Graham). I cannot think of any other way other than to plead to the audience that the person they think they see of Taleb is not what it is, and the commentator above me mislead, or is mis-leads. I like how people some-how point to him calling other people idiots is somehow something outrageous to the point of murder, this is a place of extreme passivity though. Grothendiek protested vietnam by giving lectures in the forests while the U.S bombed nearby, Guass was quite stern, etc etc. Genius comes in variety.