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The insidious racism of Mary Beard and the “diversity” operators

The diversity discourse appears to serve an insidious form of racism and Northern Euro supremacist agenda (with a redefinition of the Western world and a reframing of the classics). Please stop classifying people according to race, and stop creating racial stereotypes and divisions in the name of “diversity”, while doing some smug virtue signaling. Look up “framing” in a decision theory textbook and you can see what I mean. This is no different from funding Al Qaeda headcutters and women-enslavers in Syria in the name of “democracy”.

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@nntaleb Homeopathy is useful PRECISELY because it doesn’t work. Can homeopathy can HELP the NHS? http://dailym.ai/1srK3Fo   via @MailOnline Permalink 12:32 PM – 16 Aug 2017

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@nntaleb If journos talk about a risk, say Nuclear, ignore it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V7W46sOt38   Permalink 4:35 AM – 16 Aug 2017

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@nntaleb A convincing illustration of what happens when you put nerds (IYIs) in charge of regulation. pic.twitter.com/4xu1eZfpXo Permalink 3:48 PM – 15 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Fat Tony explaining how “f*** you” money works in case Monsanto & Cambridge University are after you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI   Permalink 2:27 PM – 15 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Monsanto’s St Op Procedure: an online army demonizes GMO-skeptics. They also contact institutions & ask for removal, as they did w/Ceralini.https://twitter.com/luciansusanu/status/897459026975436800   Permalink 7:16 AM – 15 Aug 2017

@theQSLman .@nntaleb on procrastination. Superb insight. pic.twitter.com/RdRc7Y2RDh Permalink 7:06 AM – 15 Aug 2017

@theQSLmind .@nntaleb on procrastination. Superb insight. pic.twitter.com/RdRc7Y2RDh Permalink 7:06 AM – 15 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So the British IYI pseudodiversity police were instantly turned into a Monsanto smear campaigning agent Union of 2 idiots is much more idiot Permalink 5:19 AM – 15 Aug 2017

@nntaleb British IYI class is after me. Monsanto shills (@kevinFolta) join the smear campaign (since 2015, 2300 emails to NYU). Impotent #Antifragile pic.twitter.com/RMZ7oVd2pl Permalink 5:03 AM – 15 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The exquisite precision & instant response (for both acceleration and deceleration) of the EV makes the non-electric car feel like a boat. Permalink 4:07 AM – 15 Aug 2017

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@nntaleb I just published “The insidious racism of Mary Beard and the ‘diversity’ operators”https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-insidious-racism-of-mary-beard-et-al-8b6b768b4575   Permalink 3:32 AM – 15 Aug 2017

@nntaleb First day driving a @TeslaMotors. Something else! I hope I will never ever have to drive a nonelectric car. Permalink 3:22 AM – 15 Aug 2017

@SimonMoores I really don’t think people are grasping what @nntaleb argument is. It’s really about the anc. population of http://N.Africa   Permalink 3:07 AM – 15 Aug 2017

@nntaleb US Army embraces Antifragility http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/security-force-assistance-brigades-the-us-army-embraces-antifragility   Permalink 5:52 PM – 14 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Work, Slavery, the Minority Rule, and Skin in the Game | EconTalk |http://bit.ly/2vDpWqR   Permalink 3:36 PM – 14 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Nobody is seeing what I am seeing? This piece of info,hapl of Ancient Greeks v. close to Canaanites? While linear b nonsemitic! Huge if truehttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/897031793240625152   Permalink 2:15 PM – 14 Aug 2017

@careygillam “Monsanto’s message is clear – stay out of its way,” say cancer victim lawyers @MonsantoCo wants sanctioned https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Andrus-Wagstaff-response-on-release-of-Monsanto-dox.pdf   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/p6duzdL9Wk”>  pic.twitter.com/p6duzdL9Wk Permalink 1:18 PM – 14 Aug 2017

@RanaHarbi What the f did I just read pic.twitter.com/92cos5rvZj Permalink 11:50 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@normonics The sample space of reality is enormous. Therefore every narrative can be supported by ‘facts’ so long as they are selectively amplified. Permalink 9:39 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@asadabukhalil Look at this language:when he talks about Russian and Syrian repression he uses the world “slaughter”. For Saudis, he uses “excessive” forcehttps://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/896688115892486144   Permalink 9:36 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@Cyberlibris We used to be fooled by randomness, the truth is we are fooled by ergodicity! https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.07773.pdf   @nntaleb @ole_b_peters #BigData #data Permalink 7:37 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@JegErAlan This, thanks to a @JacobWinski tweet, is the link that made me realize I should be skeptical about GMOs: http://fooledbyrandomness.com/PrecautionaryPrinciple.html  https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/897009908276703232   Permalink 6:33 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Perfect! ABSENCE of haplogroup DOES NOT indicate absence of ancestry, but presence does! Permalink 4:28 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “The insidious racism of Mary Beard et al.”https://medium.com/p/the-insidious-racism-of-mary-beard-et-al-8b6b768b4575   Permalink 4:20 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@nntaleb From the recent papers abt modern Greeks ~Mycenians, Minoans: G and J2 (even J1) haplogroups. pic.twitter.com/vMOz281dPe Permalink 2:47 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Jordan My data has no ethnicities (Tribal North Arabian, West Bank Palestinian, Circasn, etc.) But again, J1e, 10 times more than Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/aTme3UNIsS Permalink 1:40 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Syria as whole v. different from Leb, owing to high presence of J1e (Peninsula genes) from Arab conquest/trade. No granularity on West. Syr pic.twitter.com/difEdbiGVa Permalink 1:23 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@nntaleb He was also converted to skepticism about GMOs. Thank you, Twitter .https://twitter.com/JegErAlan/status/896932546193346561   Permalink 1:20 AM – 14 Aug 2017

@TheDuran_com Assange NAILS IS!http://theduran.com/julian-assange-asks-us-said-nothing-obama-supported-ukrainian-neo-nazis/   Permalink 2:57 PM – 13 Aug 2017

@nntaleb On plane back to NY tried to play with a messier probabilistic structure in genetics. @PZalloua pic.twitter.com/qD14r5Uu4I Permalink 1:10 PM – 13 Aug 2017

@nntaleb History Jumps! An aids for my discussion of probabilistic reasoning for history in my comment on the tirade of Klueless Massimohttps://twitter.com/normonics/status/896820612659912704   Permalink 12:54 PM – 13 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The GMO deception was over the day AMZN bought Whole Foods. AMZN is one order of magnitude bigger than Monsanto, typ. tactics won’t work. Permalink 11:39 AM – 13 Aug 2017

@spikedonline Brendan O’Neill on the poison of racial thinking pic.twitter.com/Cy3JC7Vfql Permalink 11:19 AM – 13 Aug 2017

@RamdasSunder @nntaleb This is Probability, not Stats. Closely related, but a good statistician is not automatically a good probabilist. Permalink 5:09 AM – 13 Aug 2017

@GuruAnaerobic Next time someone criticises Paleo diet cos they only lived til 35yrs, ask them if early death was “diet related” or disease, childbirth,etchttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/896614771973382145   Permalink 12:06 AM – 13 Aug 2017

@nntaleb If you are trying to figure out diet, genetics, and lifestyle, uncon LE is not the right measure. Permalink 11:27 PM – 12 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Flawed analysis: You shd only measure longevity by taking life expectancy conditional on being >50-60, not at birthhttp://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170807-living-in-places-where-people-live-the-longest?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter   Permalink 11:09 PM – 12 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Antifragility World’s oldest man, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 113http://www.wpxi.com/news/world/media-worlds-oldest-man-a-holocaust-survivor-dies-at-113/589276130   Permalink 2:45 PM – 12 Aug 2017

@nntaleb My PhD thesis advisor/coauthor is a French woman mathematician. The committee had 2 women mathematicians. Nobody asked for a quota then.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/895493873094414336   Permalink 10:26 AM – 12 Aug 2017

@PaleoPhil And here is an example: History Channel’s “Barbarians Rising” portraying Hannibal as a black West African. pic.twitter.com/oY6CXNwTjZ Permalink 9:17 AM – 12 Aug 2017

@Christo59093308 @nntaleb Amazing!! The Black Swan in 2007, 1 yr before financial crisis! And now pg. 205 with mention of potential Syria crisis! #mustread Permalink 6:56 AM – 12 Aug 2017

@nntaleb BTW what Romans used to call “Arabs” were Nabateans, Northern Arabians, close to Jordanians & Hawranis Permalink 2:38 AM – 12 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Romans looked like other Meds at Ancient times: It was the Celts who were ethnic. @holland_tom citing Petronius. pic.twitter.com/aFgXunJ94D Permalink 12:44 AM – 12 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Ran into 2 Amioun-born New Yorkers Trump supporters at a party in Amioun. “If Amioun voted in the US elections, Trump would get 99%” #MAGA pic.twitter.com/gTCiNKvavf Permalink 4:07 PM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Who is @gchoran99 ? Not only he got the point about subsaharan genes but also that “historians are full of crap”.https://twitter.com/hbdchick/status/896139383371317248   Permalink 3:58 PM – 11 Aug 2017

@alxpr1c3 6 pictorials exposing what A LOT, if not MOST, academic text-books are missing: #RIGOUR!https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/896005183993294848   Permalink 2:44 PM – 11 Aug 2017

@robertwjordway People say @nntaleb is nice in person but I disagree. He made me split a mini cannoli with him at @NECSI #diabetes Permalink 1:15 PM – 11 Aug 2017

@ghchammas Lebanese steak tartare. @nntaleb pic.twitter.com/uqmoGqIBTR Permalink 12:06 PM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Syria most probably comes from the Phoenician name for Anti-Lebanon. So, yes the name “Syria” correponds to 3 geographical areas in history. pic.twitter.com/ZTk3SzPI1s Permalink 10:03 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Also in Bible “Aram” is mentioned by which translations say Syria. But “Syria” doesn’t map to “Aram” & Syrion is ambiguous! Permalink 9:52 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Terms “Syria”, Blad eSham, & Syrion != Greek: Syria coela (Bekaa)+Antioch Syrion in Bible is AntiLebanon (Syrion ve Lvanon) Libanensis pbm Permalink 9:46 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb How to look at history using probabilistic reasoning: Pinned Brownian Bridges. Conditional on present and past, what can midpoints be? pic.twitter.com/NlGZYpEKps Permalink 7:33 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Real World Risk Pictorial Next Session Oct 2-6 http://realworldrisk.com/pictorial_view_of_the_program_by_dhaval   Permalink 6:47 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The problem is not just financial dependence. Wusses fear losing friends & not being invited to the parties if they defy the thoughtpolice. Permalink 6:15 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Amioun for the weekend, 1900 years. pic.twitter.com/aZEJzELsfC Permalink 5:33 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@AntifragileACC @nntaleb Working at a university and trying to shake up academia world! Thank you for all you do to push us! pic.twitter.com/3y6MYcsCxF Permalink 5:14 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb It was also for me a way to show the UK establishment they can’t play with independent people like me without eventually getting burned. Permalink 3:25 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@paulorrj No, basically it started with @wmarybeard being wrong & called out. So, she accused Taleb of sexism because of it.https://medium.com/@nntaleb/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a   Permalink 3:22 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb More precise: Nubians somewhere there. pic.twitter.com/VMc7tNmAfM Permalink 3:20 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Don’t tell me my friend Tom Holland is falling into the Insidious Racism of the UK establishment! pic.twitter.com/rJJyaHkbdx Permalink 3:12 AM – 11 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Precautionary approach to climate. pic.twitter.com/FxW7wAE1u4 Permalink 4:36 PM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Faced that junk in the Air France lounge, JFK. Manager who spoke w/thick Marseilles accent promised to replace w/documentaries on animals. pic.twitter.com/pEB9YnEjgS Permalink 4:33 PM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This is more granularity about Lebanese (all religions) and Armenians pic.twitter.com/aqfwoF0YrI Permalink 1:28 PM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Gulf government gave SECRET $20 million gift to D.C. think tank https://interc.pt/2vQNz1K   by @ryangrim Permalink 1:15 PM – 10 Aug 2017

@JacobWinski Just received The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics and it’s wonderful. Thank you @nntaleb for the tip, really appreciate it. pic.twitter.com/C6IgqsVi1F Permalink 10:55 AM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Thus guy is an intellectual fraud. Nonlinear domains like climate & markets!= mechanics like solar eclipses. If it were true he wd be rich.https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/895634473425014785   Permalink 10:55 AM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So we can start the great East Med Peace Project by convincing Turks Cypriots, Greeks (etc.) they are 1st cousins. Permalink 4:42 AM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Fat Tony is J2b. So my prediction: Mafia dons are predominantly J2. We can try to test it. Permalink 4:28 AM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This map confirms my grandmother’s heurisitc: if people eat the same they look the same… and have similar genetic makeup Permalink 4:24 AM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb And note that the Arab J1e (invaders) subclade is practically non existent in Leb, high in Palestine. Permalink 4:13 AM – 10 Aug 2017

@alexdelprete Giustamente Nassim ci ricorda che il sud italia è Magna Grecia: aplogruppo J2 (18-30%) ed E1b1b (15-25%) http://www.eupedia.com/genetics/italian_dna.shtml  https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/895599465381339137   Permalink 4:10 AM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Also note that Sunnis have about as much J2 as the rest. Permalink 3:58 AM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This chart will cause a shock to Lebanese national identity. And perhaps Turkish. Note that Southern Italy is also blue (Magna Grecia) pic.twitter.com/J9fsWp8f8E Permalink 3:55 AM – 10 Aug 2017

@nntaleb What SJW don’t get is the implied racism of “white” & “colored”: if you mix white & colored you get colored. That implies purity not race. Permalink 5:30 PM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I was told that traditionally royals shd never say “thank you”, “please”, “sorry”, etc. because you don’t say it to subjects. True? Refs? Permalink 4:00 PM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Turned out in England politeness is something for the middle class. Aristocrats are exempt. Any literature on that? Permalink 2:39 PM – 9 Aug 2017

@MaxAbrahms The problem was meeting him for coffee. Everyone knows you must meet for squid ink or frog legs. Permalink 1:11 PM – 9 Aug 2017

@MaxAbrahms If Twitter teaches you anything…it’s unwise to try to publicly outwit @nntaleb. Permalink 12:38 PM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I am very direct. I asked the doctor; he said can’t do anything about it. So you need to live with it. Permalink 11:57 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Here is 90% of the words used in N Levantine ordinary conv. Most are Ugaritic/Canaanite Also see grammar https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/semitic-3.pdf   Permalink 11:31 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Real estate, like fish, starts rotting from the top.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/895113331488567296   Permalink 9:58 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The bigger problem is that Google is a utility. Yet it does not fall under the 1st amendement. This is what worries me the deepest.https://twitter.com/TehNormster/status/895320753268183040   Permalink 9:30 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb OK, OK, I will say it publicly. I viscerally don’t like S. Pinker, but I will take every RISK to help him fight insidious censorship. Permalink 9:15 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Where is the real “left”? Those who wd say: “I detest what you write, bt I wd give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write” Permalink 8:41 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb OK Ok Damore is a hero. He knowingly took risk. Permalink 7:55 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This entire idea of bicolorism categorization destroys the notion that humans are humans, and once you classify you destroy something. Permalink 7:44 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This entire idea of bicolorism categorization destroys the notion that humans are humans, and once you classify you destroy something. Permalink 7:44 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Which is why the word “white” shd never be used for race as it means nothing. The only “white” pple may be albino.s. Permalink 7:30 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This guy @adammerberg has been helping Monsanto trolls attacking our work on the prec. pple by lying about the mathematical “mistakes”. Permalink 7:24 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Thanks for correcting me. Damore is not a hero. He is a victim. I honor pple who correct my mistakes w/o trolling.https://twitter.com/tinylessons/status/895287275864694784   Permalink 7:18 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So Italy shd be divided in two races, the “whites” and the “xxxx” (actually there is a word in Italian)? For Rome it depends on the suburb? Permalink 7:16 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb If you did ethnicities in Roman England, I think most Mediterranean Romans would be considered “Ethnic” by today’s metric. Permalink 7:06 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb “N N Taleb does not suffer fools gladly.” I want it on my epitaph.https://mises.org/blog/what-nassim-taleb-can-teach-us#.WYrzxxjskjo.twitter   Permalink 4:37 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb It is thanks to regulators that Monsanto managed to ghostwrite its own safety reviews.https://twitter.com/Masoninblue/status/895239660020092928   Permalink 4:07 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Monsanto was its own ghostwriter for safety reviews https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/monsanto-was-its-own-ghostwriter-for-some-safety-reviews   via @BW Permalink 3:37 AM – 9 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I got 2 citations from Damore today: Individual variations vs categories. The Universal destroys the particular pic.twitter.com/UQCN44xzAx Permalink 7:11 PM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “Comment on ‘Klueless Massimo’s Comments (Massimo Pigliucci) of the Mary Beard (Twitter) debate”https://medium.com/p/comment-on-klueless-massimo-s-comments-massimo-pigliucci-of-the-mary-beard-twitter-debate-4c99a36de40   Permalink 6:18 PM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The only way to prevent institutions from rotting is by automatic dissolution, to have the same life expectancy as free-market companies. Permalink 5:12 PM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I wrote an entire book on Mathematics of History since EVERY path is a historical “Brownian Bridge” from Fooled by Randomness pic.twitter.com/1H8oI5mV21 Permalink 11:52 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Academia/journos are nice housebroken submissive dogs. By collectivelly going against me they didn’t realize they need to fight a wolf. Permalink 10:16 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb 8) I did not read the article in full, just random glances, each time I find a mistake. Permalink 9:08 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb 7) Klueless Massimo @mpigliucci (how can one make so many mistakes in a single article? Doesn’t know abt TIME SERIES ? pic.twitter.com/dH5kdXqbcl Permalink 9:07 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb (I exchanged comments with him on twitter.) Permalink 8:26 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Did not read @NickCohen4’s blog based on heuristic: Never read anything by someone abt you if you would never read him abt anything else. Permalink 8:18 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Nassim Taleb Warns “Something Is Broken In The UK Intellectual Sphere” | Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-07/nassim-taleb-warns-something-broken-uk-intellectual-sphere   Permalink 7:59 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Klueless Massimo “expert” in Stoic virtues s.a. courage. Like nuns “experts” in sexual positions. If you don’t take risk, STFU abt courage.https://twitter.com/mpigliucci/status/894765199726477312   Permalink 7:55 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb 6) Klueless Massimo @mpigliucci, department of bullshit. He talks about STATISTICS by referring to STAT 101. pic.twitter.com/IMIq4BlzV0 Permalink 6:57 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Here is a more technical way to view the “otherness” in terms of distance, differential entropy. pic.twitter.com/vv9A0WXMwJ Permalink 5:22 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb And, BTW, @mpigliucci ‘s account has nothing to do w/my argument, outlined in my Medium post. https://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a   @davidpapineau Permalink 4:40 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb And, BTW, @mpigliucci ‘s account has nothing to do w/my argument, outlined in my Medium post. https://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a   @davidpapineau Permalink 4:40 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I am sure @kateantiquity and @caitlinrgreen would agree with my message that ethnicities shd not be binarized/lumped as “other”. pic.twitter.com/CmgE5n5CU0 Permalink 4:26 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Independently an Italian fellow nails it! Same point as mine about the insidious racism of Mary Beardhttps://twitter.com/SiamolaGente/status/894856398806409216   Permalink 4:07 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb To actually understand what Mary Beard and the UK PolNazis are getting wrong. (h/t Google hero) pic.twitter.com/cUqyZsNNb2 Permalink 3:40 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@primalpoly The original #googlememo, including all its links to research, which @Gizmodo deleted before criticizing it as lacking empirical support.https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/894816981521772545   Permalink 2:34 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Pple are surprised that Turkey speaks Turkish w/little Turkic genes, Lebanon has no Arab genes, not that India speaks English w/o Engl genes Permalink 2:13 AM – 8 Aug 2017

@nntaleb A great description of how ritual defamation is done. Problem: #antifragility of some.https://twitter.com/__ice9/status/894757155437297665   Permalink 8:14 PM – 7 Aug 2017

@nntaleb If they can. Only if they can.https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/894272812751499265   Permalink 8:07 PM – 7 Aug 2017

@nntaleb That has been my point all my life. Western Civilization is Med. Diversity should be olive oil vs butter, not Euro vs “other”. Idiots.https://twitter.com/francisalonso86/status/894616311086686212   Permalink 11:02 AM – 7 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Something torturing me. I receive a Tesla this week & something abt state subsidies troubles my conscience as a localist-libertarian. Permalink 10:30 AM – 7 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Actually, I can guesstimate from the decline in rate of blocking by bot of UK SWJ trolls and journos over past 12h that it has to be <1%. Permalink 10:10 AM – 7 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This man gets it.https://twitter.com/Billare/status/894589364625428480   Permalink 9:31 AM – 7 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The big question: How much do the Political Correct Universalist Nazis represent of the UK pple: 3%? Less? More?https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15   Permalink 7:36 AM – 7 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Mike Duncan @mikeduncan concluded abt my exchange w/Mary Beard not veifying if she did not falsify the nature of encounter. ShoddyHistorianhttps://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/894531394814259203   Permalink 6:35 AM – 7 Aug 2017

@primalpoly Google HR: ‘There are no sex differences’ Google AdWords: ‘You bought books on programming? Here are ads for GQ magazine and Cialis’ pic.twitter.com/Dtn2vvNfoI Permalink 6:09 AM – 7 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I actually followed @mikeduncan on twitter until I listened in podcast to a subject I know well, Seneca, & saw he was a bullshitter. Permalink 5:23 AM – 7 Aug 2017

@nntaleb How can you trust a “historian” like @mikeduncan if he doesn’t have the instinct to look for other side of story? https://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a  https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/893189129638490119   Permalink 4:42 AM – 7 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I can feel in my bones, from the #googlememo (and my UK story) that something is starting to crumble. I mean, to crumble. Permalink 6:39 PM – 6 Aug 2017

@LorenzoWVilla (I believe that) This statement is extremely accurate and extremely funny. Permalink 6:03 PM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb But, fundamentally, saying “I am a woman hence I have a license to call everyone who bothers me a misogynist” infuriates me. Permalink 2:59 PM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Beard said “accurate” which got me going. Then backtracked Then misrepresented the exchange abt credentials. Then used the feminist cover. pic.twitter.com/FOKqWJ6JXm Permalink 2:57 PM – 6 Aug 2017

@karoumy I screencapped it in time. pic.twitter.com/KfN64aYJlr Permalink 2:28 PM – 6 Aug 2017

@RBeisert Taleb called a UK “historian” out for revisionism. People stamped their feet impotently while antifragile Taleb laughed. Permalink 2:10 PM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Please ban all my “pop risk” books. Enact rules to make them illegal on campus. Please put the burning on youtube, please!https://twitter.com/soniarothwell/status/894299329715941378   Permalink 1:52 PM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I knew there was something wrong with the Green Party’s support of war in Syria. But they extend their “environmental” to Roman Britain.https://twitter.com/WhyToVoteGreen/status/894283635662127104   Permalink 1:12 PM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I get tons of that crap, now w/a bot blocking them. Basically it is very OK to be a bullshitter if “good manners”. The UK self-destructing?https://twitter.com/janeknappster/status/894278567995088900   Permalink 12:30 PM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Salibi claims Lebanon had wave of settlements byYemenis. No trace of J1e among Sunnis. Historian texts= hearsay + fabrication + some truth pic.twitter.com/KuTtE4p3OQ Permalink 12:07 PM – 6 Aug 2017

@Chateaubriand__ This raises the important point that, by inserting implausible contemporary diversity, the BBC ignored the real diversity of Roman Britain.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/893456839375032322   Permalink 10:34 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@Cernovich Intelligence bureaucrats disdain @nntaleb risk management. Firing Flynn robbed America of one of our greatest minds. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/michael-flynn-general-chaos   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/X2JCVBI2LA”>  pic.twitter.com/X2JCVBI2LA Permalink 10:22 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb In UK, It is misogynist to not deal w/a woman as one would w/a man. But if you deal w/a woman as you would w/a man, you are also mysogynist. Permalink 9:53 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This is how Syrians looked. Like Romans. And the Berbers. Diversity was Mediter vs U.K. Mary Beard keeps her BS going. pic.twitter.com/nP8hYafBVK Permalink 9:31 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb More bullshit by Mary Beard: Berbers and Syrians were Mediterraneans, close to Romans in looks, the “diversity” doesn’t work there. pic.twitter.com/p9sudkvG38 Permalink 9:09 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb PLEDGE: If I ever, over my lifetime make a BS nondisconfirmatory historical statement, you are allowed to abuse me! @alexapostolideshttps://twitter.com/alexapostolides/status/894214800913428480   Permalink 8:40 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb All I can say so far: very roughly, Palestinians are Meds on their mother’s side, Arabs on their father’s. Exhilarating to read history Permalink 7:59 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb pic.twitter.com/ZCQpzG45Ix Permalink 7:53 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Palestinian genetic distance using cross-entropy on Mito DNA, female lineage pic.twitter.com/ixCepwzz5G Permalink 7:46 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Mr (bullshitter Johnson, here is what we know about the “African” Punicshttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/dna-sequencing-of-ancient-phoenician-remains-could-make-us-reconsider-the-history-of-human-movement-a7048046.html   Permalink 6:35 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@eamonn @nntaleb is not “alt-right”, but he did call Mary Beard a “bullshitter.” Here’s why:https://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a   Permalink 6:05 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The J1e pic.twitter.com/x8usv8tCTF Permalink 6:01 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Jim Pickard @PickardJE of the FT engaged in same w/me but, 8 years later, is PROUD of it. When journos are despicable, they are despicable.https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/894092020494381056   Permalink 5:21 AM – 6 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The Palestinians appear to be ~one third/half Mediterranean, one third/half Arabs. 8 times more traces of Peninsula Arabs than Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/1lBUSe8VVA Permalink 4:38 AM – 6 Aug 2017

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@nntaleb Imbecile, these are the people from the Hama area that UK “scholars” want you to believe are “Africans” (J2 haplogroup is the Med gene). pic.twitter.com/KGycAtl7y1 Permalink 6:28 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Did Hama (Emesa) people have the SubSaharan phenotype? Do you know how they look? Have you seen their DNA? Hahahaha. Only in the UK Permalink 6:22 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Trying to figure out using @PZalloua ‘s database if Venitians left much imprint… pic.twitter.com/nk7KMPgnJc Permalink 2:22 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@GeorgeJNasr https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/778702519518187520   Permalink 12:32 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Writing shd be a form of risk taking. Permalink 12:23 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Aramaic du Jour: Qornet as-Sawda is not “Black Corner” from Arabic, but from Aramaic “Mount of Martyrs” Qarno d’Sohdeh.https://twitter.com/turlevnon/status/893862311475150849   Permalink 12:03 PM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I bet you the Facebook “Fake News” marker will be interpreted as “true uncensored news”. #Antifragilehttps://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/893906875359604736   Permalink 11:52 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “Quand les chrétiens du Liban ont-ils commencé à parler français ?”https://medium.com/p/quand-les-chr%C3%A9tiens-du-liban-ont-ils-commenc%C3%A9-%C3%A0-parler-fran%C3%A7ais-faedb960cbdb   Permalink 10:26 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb (this is fun… a lot of fun) pic.twitter.com/nxRQEcyr4m Permalink 10:15 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@ektrit Taleb is the ultimate practitioner of Fuckoffism. Two parameters needed: 1) Be empirically knowledgeable. 2) Be financially independenthttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/893820093896982528   Permalink 10:02 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb About the wusses in UK (and other) universities. pic.twitter.com/yeDd7lpVke Permalink 9:57 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@emiliodib J’ai pu l’améliorer un peu grâce à quelques commentaires. Êtes-vous à l’origine de la remarque concernant François 1er ? Permalink 8:17 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Wusses in UK intelligentsia who hate the Pol.Cor.Gestapo yet are afraid to speak. They study in detail Ceasar, Hanbl, but they are wusses. Permalink 6:31 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@amyalkon What was done to Tim Hunt was terrible, & people (inc me) defended. @BoraZ never guilty of still-ruinous accusation http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2015/07/03/bora_zivkovic_r.html   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/AYEXtGEZh5″>  pic.twitter.com/AYEXtGEZh5 Permalink 6:10 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb UK pol. cor. Gestapo managed to destroy EVERY researcher they went after, including Tim Hunt (Nobel) They can’t do NOTHING to me Actually… Permalink 6:04 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb You don’t fucking understand that “looking good” and *what people think of me* has NEVER been part of my agenda? Permalink 5:51 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I got >1000 insults hurled at me by the Brit IYI mob, posts on hist newsletters, etc. I am still around (haha) What wd break me? 10^5? 10^6? Permalink 5:49 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@heyjohnnyross keep up the great work NNT, their superficial walls are beginning to crumble Permalink 5:23 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The general kills the particular! pic.twitter.com/cE88fZ6w1P Permalink 5:11 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Chers amis, quelqu’un peut etre interesse a traduire en francais?https://medium.com/@nntaleb/when-did-lebanese-christians-start-speaking-french-771603969932   Permalink 5:03 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb From the Bed of Procrustes. (Why the Brits don’t like my calling Mary Beard who is a bullshitter, bullshitter): https://www.amazon.com/Bed-Procrustes-Philosophical-Practical-Aphorisms/dp/1400069971/ref=bxgy_cc_b_img_a   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/0RN2OX3dB2″>  pic.twitter.com/0RN2OX3dB2 Permalink 5:02 AM – 5 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “When did Lebanese Christians Start Speaking French?”https://medium.com/p/when-did-lebanese-christians-start-speaking-french-771603969932   Permalink 1:55 PM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Thought experiment: If the child does not have his father’s DNA, who will you trust, the social narrative, i.e., “history”, or the DNA? Permalink 1:03 PM – 4 Aug 2017

@BlackSwanReport #Monsanto Secret Documents @nntalebhttps://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/   Permalink 11:02 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@tlitb Is it lying when getting a TLS forum to report a twitter spat while distorting the tweets? @nntaleb @wmarybeardhttps://twitter.com/tlitb/status/893493193538326529   Permalink 10:38 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb These UK IYIs think that just picking random insults from “manual of platitutes for low IQ historians” will stop the spread of my argument.https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/893510188011048960   Permalink 9:37 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So Mr Pickard, you are confirming that you have absolutely no regards for journalistic ethics? Permalink 8:47 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So Mr Pickard, you are confirming that you have absolutely no regards for journalistic ethics? Permalink 8:47 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@tlitb Hmm, swapping the chron. order and hiding the clear cause of the citation retort seems pretty dodgy from a historian @nntaleb @wmarybeard pic.twitter.com/5yBer0iaeD Permalink 8:25 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb You can shout “injustice” if someone is taller than you, require compensation for hurt feelings. Freedom of expression is ROBUST. Kapish? Permalink 7:57 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@JulianAssange Between Trump’s directness & leaks the Trump admin is the most transparent in living memory–despite its policies. Good or bad? Permalink 7:41 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@christophermah3 We’ve only had troops in Afghanistan for 16 years. Give the strategy time to work.https://twitter.com/JewhadiTM/status/893473470415343617   Permalink 7:08 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb You need to do something about Grand Inquisitors such as @david_colquhounhttps://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a   Permalink 6:53 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “Something is Broken in the UK Intellectual Sphere.”https://medium.com/p/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a   Permalink 6:01 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@JulianAssange Why WikiLeaks is the best friend of the American peoplehttps://fighting15th.com/2017/04/16/wikileaks-is-not-our-enemy/   Permalink 4:49 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Mr. Jim Pickard @PickardJE, I understand you like fake news… but why are you proud of being unethical?https://medium.com/incerto/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-5bf98104cea2   Permalink 4:20 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This confirms our genetic distance based on mitocondria between Leb & further north w/@PZalloua Canaanites were not “Semitic”https://twitter.com/ancientorigins/status/893418759989456896   Permalink 4:13 AM – 4 Aug 2017

@nntaleb OK, finalized the subtitle: Skin in the Game The Underlying Matrix of Daily Life Permalink 3:47 PM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The exercise allows us to understand Fat Tails. From my book with @DrCirillo (my class notes at NYU) pic.twitter.com/XF2EeSR3vM Permalink 2:33 PM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb 1) Heuristic to get fat tails: Conditional of an event killing 1 billion in 2018, what is most likely? Pandemic Cancer Nuclear accident? Permalink 2:25 PM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Once I catch someone like Mary Beard in the act of bullshitting, I cease to read additional comments/posts by her & her friends. Kapish? Permalink 1:52 PM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Indeed, nuclear is thin-tailed & not under Precautionary P, just vigilance. Very dangerous but no systemic effects, unlike GMOs/epidemics Permalink 1:39 PM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Ad Hominem was started by Mary Beard. I turned it on her. She subsequently misrepresented the exchange. 1 designation: bullshitter. Kapish? Permalink 7:49 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb If that’s how Mary Beard bullshits about her exchange with me, how can anyone trust her historical reports? No more use for her. Permalink 7:29 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Evidence that Ms Beard is a bullshitter. She tried to degrade me to “pop risk” until I compated the “pop” to HERs. Her report. Bullshitter! pic.twitter.com/XuaYt7eLCi Permalink 7:27 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Deeper problem in the UK: the PolCorrect police terrorizes academics wusses & few dare speak up ag. the BS. UK Academics are too insecure. Permalink 7:18 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Kate Cooper and Kaitlin Green are taking the scholarly approach; it is a matter of S Med phenotype & worth engagin.Beard is useless; ignore Permalink 6:53 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The royal way is to quietly study quizzes on @CutTheKnotMath Permalink 6:37 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Some ignorance on the part of Ms Beard: classifying Pple of Tiddis, Roman times “nonwhite” equiv. to classifying London Italians as such Permalink 6:13 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb For those interested in our program w/ @DrCirillo to introduce statistical/probabilistic rigor into historiography. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=64BtMdsAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=64BtMdsAAAAJ:mZB2-lCpWbQC   Permalink 5:33 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I am sure that you agree: history shd be accurate representation of past empirical reality not cherry-picked saliency/ availability biases. Permalink 5:16 AM – 3 Aug 2017

@careygillam After release of dox showing ghostwriting, paying of scientists, @MonsantoCo seeks harsh sanctions on plaintiffs’ attorneys. Gloves are off.https://twitter.com/careygillam/status/892914920517496832   Permalink 6:25 PM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This time I am off the hook! Figured out a proof for this case by brute force rather than thinking. pic.twitter.com/x55GhtC0wv Permalink 4:31 PM – 2 Aug 2017

@CutTheKnotMath The nature’s greatest artist: pufferfish http://1funny.com/pufferfish-courtship/   #math #mathphoto HT Lyonya Medvedovsky ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/IprpwPHcxE”>  pic.twitter.com/IprpwPHcxE Permalink 9:57 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb https://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac   Permalink 9:03 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb A potential explanation is that Aliens abducted all of them. Hey, I am not an expert on Alien history. Permalink 7:09 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Sorry the answer is NOT there. Try again: where did the genes evaporate? Permalink 6:54 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb There is ONE & only ONE question that @wmarybeard needs to answer, & it is: “Where did the diversity genes evaporate?” All the rest is tawk. Permalink 6:34 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So,”Astrology fails to work on data”. @wmarybeard “How many books on Astrology have you read? You don’t see the nuances” This is 2017! Permalink 6:25 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Pbm vastly more general than @wmarybeard: there is this absence of intellectual rigor in humanities, ANECDOTAL is mistaken for STATISTICAL. pic.twitter.com/gkczkA2MvZ Permalink 5:44 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This is what people say when the data contradicts all their beliefs.https://twitter.com/wmarybeard/status/892709792468393985   Permalink 5:17 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Friends, can you find antecedents to the “availability heuristic” in the literature? Permalink 5:14 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Genetic data =>Ms Beard:”dont think you have many qualifications in nuanced historical analysis”. This is what is commonly known as bullshit Permalink 4:54 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I apologize if you perceived it as an “insult” (and BTW I’ve offered your last book as Xmas present), but I need to compress. Permalink 4:41 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The term “unsurprising” is now used as a substitute for *representative* population and “diversity”? Who are you fooling? “Scholarship?” Permalink 4:37 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Sorry Ms Beard if you are insulted by data, but here is some more. BTW Mr Morley’s blog is not “evidence”, just anecdotal reasoning. pic.twitter.com/KQ3BTEY0c5 Permalink 4:06 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The ONLY other possible explanation is that ALL the “diversity” women had no girls, ALL “diversity” men had no boys, proba ~ 1 in trillions. Permalink 3:58 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Well, Ms Beard… Scientific evidence IS available. Where did the Subsaharan genes evaporate? (w/interMed trading for 25 C.) Stop the BS. pic.twitter.com/bRfgFfNdiW Permalink 3:31 AM – 2 Aug 2017

@nntaleb When @wmarybeard says “firm evidence”, god knows what this means. In science evidence is statistical, != backed up historical anecdote. Permalink 7:32 PM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb We have a clear idea of genetic distributions hence backward composition; genes better statisticians than historian hearsay bullshit. Permalink 7:09 PM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Historians believe their own BS. Where did the subsaharan genes evaporate? NorthAfricans were lightskinned. Only “Aethiopians”, even thenhttps://twitter.com/wmarybeard/status/889925415032299520   Permalink 7:08 PM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Answer in here with real world application. I did a bootstrap for variance reasons. pic.twitter.com/UDCPZJxWRE Permalink 6:12 PM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb A probability Quiz. pic.twitter.com/AIofc0udvQ Permalink 5:57 PM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Courage is the only virtue you can’t fake. Permalink 9:20 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Using quotes by modern psychologists is the bullshitter’s imitation of depth. #LindyEffecthttps://twitter.com/dmichaelsnyder/status/892412903357394944   Permalink 8:56 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb So how many of the articles by @HenryiMiller on @ProSyn are written by Monsanto? Or those he wrote against our PP http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/PrecautionaryPrinciple.html   ?https://twitter.com/garyruskin/status/892385165376278528   Permalink 7:12 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Why cursing signals independence, even aristocracy (same chapter in Skin in the Game) pic.twitter.com/hO2Zl3cPfJ Permalink 6:03 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The tragedy of Anthony @Scaramucci is that one cannot be both alpha, free, direct and … have a supervisor.https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person-4145a1802bf6   Permalink 5:36 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb And talking about regulators being servants to industry, say Monsanto:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/597fc800e4b0d187a5968fbf   Permalink 4:55 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb And talking about regulators being servants to industry, say Monsanto:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/597fc800e4b0d187a5968fbf   Permalink 4:55 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46   Permalink 4:47 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46   Permalink 4:47 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The problem is IYIs not understanding inequality https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46  https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/892143453215346689   Permalink 4:47 AM – 1 Aug 2017

@nntaleb 11) For the Tesla, the put option embedded in lease ~ %15 of initial price. Breakeven is a 35% drop in used-car mkt. Price for uncertainty! Permalink 7:50 PM – 31 Jul 2017

@JasonL3d Yeah something snapped inside of me the other day when I finally understood this idea I got from Nassim Taleb’s bookhttps://twitter.com/jasonl3d/status/891015399847993346   Permalink 6:30 PM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 10) On the optimality of buying vs leasing (& optionality of lease), how much does a Tesla currently lose in % after 3 y &/or 36000 miles? Permalink 3:34 PM – 31 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath My apologies and appreciation to every one who noticed and point out the typo pic.twitter.com/qc43Y9TAUt Permalink 1:11 PM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Time to refresh the smear artists http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/smear.html   Permalink 12:29 PM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb People want to buy the argument by Pinker, via shoddy statistics, that the state LOWERED violence. It did not.https://twitter.com/catoletters/status/892024628755017728   Permalink 9:35 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Thing I learned today: The SP500 negative extremes follow the standard Extreme Value Distribution, not the positive extremes pic.twitter.com/HG0MOKBSHS Permalink 8:16 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb JK Rowling should write fiction in her books not in her tweets using Virtue Signaling with children. The liar did not remove tweet. Liar. pic.twitter.com/wirfcNNRYD Permalink 7:51 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb From genetics w @Zalloua, Church founders in Levant & AsiaMinor looked as Lebanese,same they did 3800 years ago, SAME as Southern Europeans. pic.twitter.com/OTLL9ycLPc Permalink 7:18 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Attempt to make church leaders look nonEuropean is a fraud. Genes show they looked like S. Europeans/Meds @PZallouahttps://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/no-jesus-was-not-a-nonwhite-refugee-who-would-have-voted-for-43779209eea4   Permalink 6:57 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb From #SkinintheGame You get more results, more peace reducing the State Dept staff & interventionistas. pic.twitter.com/BN8tw80TVq Permalink 4:59 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 9) It remains that the most subsidized industries (via taxpayer stop) have been Auto & Banking. Turned both into living carcasses. #Tesla Permalink 4:16 AM – 31 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/891770632337227776   Permalink 6:38 PM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 8) I understand the EV costs energy to make. How about other cars: do they grow on trees? Permalink 4:03 PM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 7) +Battery depletion [V. small for 50k miles] +Fragility of car [have WARRANTY] I plug at home… I fail to see a compelling arg. ag Tesla. Permalink 2:08 PM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 6) Rational arguments ag. electric: +Electric =fossil [NOT in NY] +Range anxiety [99% of my driving<80m] +Refill [Plug v.convenient for me] Permalink 2:04 PM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Thing I learned today: Extremes for SP500 are independent for negative, dependent for >0. Gumbel test @DrCirillo pic.twitter.com/sKMHf60CWK Permalink 1:45 PM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb In SiculoCalabrese, “Capisci” not quite pronounced “Kapish”, more like “Gabish”, w/the G almost a Semitic Qof. What shd I use in my books? Permalink 10:12 AM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Then why don’t you use petrol/diesel cell phones and laptops? Permalink 8:30 AM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb (cont) Honor is necessary, but not sufficient. Tired of the sophistry w/ counterexamples from Mafia, etc. Permalink 7:51 AM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Honor and Soul in the Game pic.twitter.com/fl8Vydx2Bm Permalink 5:49 AM – 30 Jul 2017

@primalpoly Which journalists should we trust? Whoever risks assassination or ostracism by reporting on civilization’s real enemies. #skininthegame Permalink 12:27 AM – 30 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 5) Skin in the game: I waited to buy a Tesla before commenting… Permalink 11:32 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 4) Yesterday, I replaced my lemon MiniCooper Flaneurmobile with a Tesla, wondering why I didn’t do it before. Permalink 11:28 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 3) We wasted 120 years not focusing on the battery… Permalink 11:22 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 2) The Tesla needs no oil change, no regular visits to the dealer so he could overcharge you for maintenance, no nothing. Permalink 11:21 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 1) Is it me or is it that when you see a Tesla you realize there has been a conspiracy to make us drive complicated crap for 50 years? Permalink 11:15 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb This is true. I have been unfollowing/blocking every p who spread & did not retract. @jk_rowling is personally & intellectually despicable.https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/891340518206177286   Permalink 10:00 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Centrally, unlike genetics-based medicine (huge dimensionality problems), DNA is very robust to parentage. You know your origin at ~10^-10 Permalink 8:47 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Volatility clustering, roughly seen. If we dig, we can see that: 1) It is NOT self-exciting Poisson 2) It is NOT stochastic vol. “Rough Vol” pic.twitter.com/J1HEZGJJGa Permalink 8:24 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb #somethingIlearnedtoday People on the “left” have higher school scores People on the “left” can’t figure out complex systems Problem=school Permalink 8:05 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Something I learned today: The SP500 is Fat Tailed because of serial dependence. pic.twitter.com/zJFZLEdgma Permalink 6:56 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Uncomfortable for some that, in spite of claims by some of “Arab descent”, no imprint in the genes/culture. “Arab nationalism” is dead. Permalink 6:17 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb We need to rewrite history. History belongs to scientists, not historians. https://www.facebook.com/nntaleb/posts/10155103605033375   ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/YFJSK159g6″>  pic.twitter.com/YFJSK159g6 Permalink 6:10 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb This 99% chimp theory is TOTAL BS. DNA is based on genetic distance or rigorous divergence metrics, not raw comparisons. Permalink 5:51 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Canaanite discovery by @PZalloua et al supports the idea that history was LESS VIOLENT than reported by historianshttps://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac   Permalink 5:25 AM – 29 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Bravo. This is the paper to read.https://twitter.com/MuhammedKambal/status/891062446433210372   Permalink 4:10 PM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Both Lister and his boss shd be in Guantanamohttps://twitter.com/ehsani22/status/891058067508535301   Permalink 3:13 PM – 28 Jul 2017

@CutTheKnotMath Problem 2 from the 2017 IMO http://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Algebra/IMO2017_Problem2.shtml   #FigureThat #math #algebra ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/Ib3QjkW9dB”>  pic.twitter.com/Ib3QjkW9dB Permalink 10:13 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Calabrese barbers, my friends for 25 y pic.twitter.com/MjowvaUuSQ Permalink 8:14 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb 4 out of the 6 Syrian kids in the Olympiad are from the minorities that the “rebels” want to ethnically cleanse. Permalink 6:35 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb An interesting style math problem from the 2017 Olympiad. (2nd most difficult) Also #FF @CutTheKnotMath who keeps us sharp with these. pic.twitter.com/lkLtOqbkUT Permalink 6:32 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Incidentally, 4 out of the 6 Syrian kids in the Olympiad are minorities. https://www.imo-official.org/team_r.aspx?code=SYR&year=2017   Permalink 6:28 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The problem is never the problem. It is how @ForeignPolicy deals with it that is the main problem. Permalink 6:13 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Tried to portray son of Syria’s Assad as a loser who “flucked” math test. Turned out math test was Olympiad & he got Honor. Men. DESPICABLE. Permalink 6:12 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The editor of @ForeignPolicy doesn’t know what a mathematics Olympiad is. Worse: he doesn’t want to know.https://twitter.com/benpauker/status/890916557332807680   Permalink 5:53 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb I mean right under the bronze. Permalink 5:41 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb “Never trust a journalist, except if she is your mother”, Bed of Procrusteshttps://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/890736308498378753   Permalink 5:20 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@nntaleb This needs a retraction, @benpauker. Young Hafez got an Honorable Mention, 1 rank under the silver medal. Is @ForeignPolicy so bad?https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/889845014133649410   Permalink 4:45 AM – 28 Jul 2017

@GreenRupertRead Watch/share, on climate/precaution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcokyx6Tbk&feature=youtu.be   & See also my jt piece on exactly this with @nntaleb: http://www.blackswanreport.com/blog/2015/05/our-statement-on-climate-models/   Permalink 11:45 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A diagnosis for a mental disease that is 100% nonimaginary is working for CNNhttps://twitter.com/fridaghitis/status/890748661109596161   Permalink 6:46 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb There are fit-all words such as ‘narcissistic’ that God created for idiots without a precise argument. Permalink 6:38 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Anthony @Scaramucci is being direct, natural, and nononsense. Get used to people who say it the way it is.https://twitter.com/EvanRFrost/status/890729509573586944   Permalink 5:25 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Finally, someone is using my language.https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/890691079217065985   Permalink 3:54 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb No self respecting Squid Ink eater will EVER put cheese on a fish pasta. Kapish? Permalink 3:23 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Squid ink with farro grain, Tbone steak and a lot of probability with statistician @philipbstark pic.twitter.com/i7G4uwUOno Permalink 3:19 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb This is actually true. Women under “rebel” areas are treated like 2nd hand furniture.https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/890684001492631552   Permalink 2:33 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Confirmation of the theory that populations, once they settle in an empty spot, stay there. http://phy.so/420375602   via @physorg_com Permalink 2:10 PM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb “malignant alliance betw powerful bureaucracies & MidEast allies” agst Amer interests, => terrorism” http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-cia-and-allies-trapped-obama-in-syrian-arms-debacle/   via @amconmag Permalink 6:37 AM – 27 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Anthony @Scaramucci understands health care is centrally a scaling problem! Grrrrrrrrreat news.https://twitter.com/newday/status/890181198940696576   Permalink 3:02 PM – 26 Jul 2017

@ScottAdamsSays Show me a person who has followed this sort of reading path and I’ll show you someone I want to work with.https://twitter.com/realwesmyers/status/890301665454305280   Permalink 2:54 PM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb The minority rule failed to work! Why? It imposes too much costs on others.http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40729996   Permalink 10:05 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb CAN YOU TAKE MY NAME OFF THAT CRAP? Permalink 9:38 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb One day.https://twitter.com/romanletters/status/890226409163063301   Permalink 8:13 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A Copt (Egyptian Christian, pre-Arab invasion) moves to France, away from persecution, & vows to preserve France from the same invasion.https://twitter.com/JeanMessiha/status/889569976704749568   Permalink 8:11 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@DShaywitz Also – those noting serendipity relevant to drug discovery – I discussed this in @FT in 2008 w/@nntaleb https://www.ft.com/content/b735787c-5d9b-11dd-8129-000077b07658   Permalink 7:59 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb Some pple criticizing economists because they “use math”. But they can’t even use math: they VIOLATE elementary probability theory. pic.twitter.com/6oiaoWEIkt Permalink 4:32 AM – 26 Jul 2017

@nntaleb A lesson for SaudiBarbaria Tsar Alexsndr II who freed the serfs,made reforms was assassinated You suddenly give rights, they want much more Permalink 3:44 PM – 25 Jul 2017