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Monthly Archives: July 2017

Scaramucci, Dimensionality, Salafinazis, Keith Kloor, Nick Kristof, McCain, Donaldo, Nocera | Twitter

@nntaleb Bullshit is not Lindy-compatible, unless it serves a risk management/survival purpose.https://medium.com/incerto/an-expert-called-lindy-fdb30f146eaf   Permalink 8:50 AM – 25 Jul 2017 @nntaleb The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle happens to be …bullshit. #metahttps://twitter.com/republicofmath/status/889864052935192576   Permalink 8:21 AM – 25 Jul 2017 @nntaleb The imbeciles who wrote the article would rank LOWER in the Olympiad than the person they […]

Nocera, GMOs, IYIs, MSM, Flaneuring, Tamar Haspel, Clarissa Ward, “Nudge” | Twitter

@nntaleb One of the “failures” sold a company for billions. There exists no business in which people can be as clueless as journos, yet survive. Permalink 1:47 PM – 15 Jul 2017 @CutTheKnotMath A tragedy. Could not just “like” ithttps://twitter.com/republicofmath/status/886261006007242752   Permalink 12:49 PM – 15 Jul 2017 @theenviousleft 97% of media professionals donated to […]

CNN, Ad Hominem, Scale, Fareed Zakaria, Miller, Sugar, Models, GMO Trolls | Twitter

I just published “Why Each One Should Eat His Own Turtles (Revised )” https://t.co/LF4asSykFM — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) July 1, 2017 @nntaleb Starts around :55 Permalink 3:25 PM – 7 Jul 2017 @nntaleb I was wondering if someone knows the lyrics/name of this. I saw the performers in Granada. The singer is Paya.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aSOZ9YKARg&list=WL&index=7   […]

Embracing ‘antifragility’ (2013)

Reader Garin (thanks!) pointed me to this Al Jazeera video from 2013 that I missed. Interesting and unusual video format.