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@nntaleb On my way to Moscow for a lecture at Moscow State U. Tuesday Permalink 9:27 PM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb & rape apologist Permalink 8:47 PM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb There is enough to show that CNN BS vendor journalist Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss is misogynist & has pro-fascist pro-Alqaeda tendencies. Permalink 4:47 PM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb witchhunts Permalink 4:07 PM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Acceptable; silence for $$ only so if perpetrator will not harm others.https://twitter.com/inkion/status/919321058464768000 Permalink 3:01 PM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Le bouc émissairehttps://twitter.com/drudge_report/status/919313113144426496 Permalink 2:47 PM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Using like @dandrezner a strawman to tag someone you don’t like “racist”,”sexist”, “somethingist” to trigger whichhunts is morally repellent Permalink 2:02 PM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Vile @dandrezner transformed my disaproval of encouraging further rape w/$$ for silence as “sexist”. What do to him?https://medium.com/incerto/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-5bf98104cea2 Permalink 1:17 PM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Actors represents to us on the screen how other citizens are; but they are too fake to be like other citizens. No #skininthegame, all image Permalink 12:42 PM – 14 Oct 2017

@sicruzado That being said McGowan must admit it wasn’t correct to make a deal on her silence. She traded her integrity for “career”. Permalink 11:12 AM – 14 Oct 2017

@amyalkon Keeping silent as trade for money & fame ultimately means selling out others down to road to be victimized – ugliest self-interest. Permalink 8:15 AM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb By what logic is accepting payment to perpetuate the system NOT creating future victims? Selling one’s silence is non negociable ethically. Permalink 8:05 AM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb No, imbecile. It is payment to stay silent! Permalink 7:23 AM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Or, worse, blackmail. @schmittpaula Permalink 7:14 AM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Any financial transaction of the sort is just prostitution.https://twitter.com/schmittpaula/status/918780641919033344 Permalink 6:51 AM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Paper will be on Archiv next Tue. Permalink 6:43 AM – 14 Oct 2017

@____AGM____ This paper destroys political science BS models.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/919188024457560069 Permalink 6:10 AM – 14 Oct 2017

@keithwalkiewicz “There exist a kind of people for whom life is some kind of project…” – @nntaleb #Antifragile pic.twitter.com/MsHHVagLnk Permalink 6:10 AM – 14 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach, forthcoming in Quantitative Finance. pic.twitter.com/YQMb2WhbhL Permalink 6:07 AM – 14 Oct 2017

@CutTheKnotMath A friendly probability question #FigureThat #math #probability pic.twitter.com/e47QM8THA6 Permalink 12:04 PM – 13 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Flunked. This leaves no tail on dish, likely to be dyed pasta.https://twitter.com/EduQuinn/status/918572125870534657 Permalink 1:21 PM – 12 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Stupid pple have political “scientist” friends. Blocking them keeps your feed clean of political scientists & other bullshitters. Gabish? Permalink 9:28 AM – 12 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Romans wd despise today’s scholars of Rome, as “tawkers”, nonrisktakers, e.g., a nondoer “expert” on Stoicism s.a.@mpigliucci #skininthegame Permalink 6:40 AM – 12 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Most of all, Romans gave actors a pariah rank in society, because they “faked” by profession. #skininthegame Permalink 6:34 AM – 12 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Romans believed in Lindy. They detested theory, wanted results. They never mistook technology for science. #LindyEffecthttps://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/918463935011057665 Permalink 6:31 AM – 12 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Shin and Waw, obvious. J2a haplogroup. Permalink 6:27 AM – 12 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Comment 1: A few idiots ranting here (now blocked) didn’t get that barbers, technologists & artisans are not included in my hobbyist list. Permalink 5:07 PM – 11 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Some pursuits such as 1) love, 2) science, and 3) politics are more genuine when carried out by hobbyists rather than professionals. Permalink 2:16 PM – 11 Oct 2017

@BlueSertorius I think you did not understand his books then. (Taleb on twitter)=(taleb on books)^2 and I fucking love it Permalink 11:19 AM – 11 Oct 2017

@nntaleb WEINSTEIN Punish him for exploitation of women. But he seeking treatment for libido Not misuse of power/hypocrisy/virtue signaling! Permalink 7:26 AM – 11 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Το oνομα μου είναι *Νίκος* στα Ελληνικαhttps://twitter.com/NBDruid/status/918091350335213568 Permalink 6:27 AM – 11 Oct 2017

@CutTheKnotMath A problem of loaded dice https://www.cut-the-knot.org/Probability/LoadedDice.shtml #FigureThat #math #probability ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/lTlvz6OWyl”> pic.twitter.com/lTlvz6OWyl Permalink 6:03 AM – 11 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Every few days, I find myself lamenting U. Eco’s absence. No living figure is that rich: fertile, erudite, playful, charming,& Mediterraneanhttps://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/917429987044679680 Permalink 11:30 AM – 10 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Dakhil origin: Aramaic corrupted, not Arb (DKL) pic.twitter.com/YMDqnJcfgJ Permalink 10:20 AM – 10 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Not of word of Arabic in this Leb. sentence: Dakhil rabb (Fear Lord), Canaanite fann: Greek (pneuma) bi: Aramaic Ligha: Greek (logos)https://twitter.com/Abbinus/status/917784833773985793 Permalink 10:17 AM – 10 Oct 2017

@garyruskin Reporting on the World’s Most Controversial Farm Chemical, via @CivilEats @TheBostonWriter http://bit.ly/2fYsgBr @careygillam Permalink 5:47 AM – 10 Oct 2017

@nntaleb I confess I had someone specific in mind Loss aversion punishes Much harder to be asked “why is there is a statue?” than why there isn’t onehttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/902138152281919488 Permalink 3:43 AM – 10 Oct 2017

@CutTheKnotMath A second probability problem #FigureThat #math #probability pic.twitter.com/S6Q7Uwddsu Permalink 3:33 PM – 9 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Ana méṡé ma3ak. La nġayyer min Faddoul ṡwayy. Bass l”3″ aḣsan min el rusé.https://twitter.com/turlevnon/status/917495082017796096 Permalink 2:05 PM – 9 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Maltese works because it has minimal switches @turlevnon pic.twitter.com/zaPWxxGzZH Permalink 1:30 PM – 9 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Na22e 7arf ma7al l ع (bil siryéné ܥ wbil aramé ע ) lallébnéné ljdid. ч amma 3 ? Permalink 10:19 AM – 9 Oct 2017

@JulianAssange Richard Thaler just won the Bank of Sweden Prize for economics (there is no Nobel prize for economics). Thaler is dangerous proponent of state totalitarianism who wants to eliminate unsurveilled human economic exchange. Sweden is the most cashless society.https://twitter.com/R_Thaler/status/796007237458206720 Permalink 10:06 AM – 9 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Pick a letter as substitute for ع (equiv to ܥ in Syriac or ע in Aramaic) for Modern Lebanese. ч or 3 (note that ч is from the Cyrillic) Permalink 7:00 AM – 9 Oct 2017

@GreenRupertRead Delighted: my motion on extending the @PrecPrinciple to cover X-risks and research-funding into them just PASSED overwhelmingly at #gpconf Permalink 3:41 AM – 9 Oct 2017

@nntaleb The @EUDelegationTur doesn’t get that the Turks didn’t “come to” Mardin (small DNA flow). Turkish speaking simply means someone converted. pic.twitter.com/MYvq281BHV Permalink 8:36 AM – 8 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Nietzsche’s Master-Slave morality in modern terms: Reputation is for slaves, Honor, Courage, & Integrity is for the Self-Owned. Permalink 1:54 PM – 7 Oct 2017

@nntaleb The main problem is vulnerability to reputational effects. Fragility. You can’t be a slave and avoid behaving like a slave.https://twitter.com/wolfejosh/status/916712530738900992 Permalink 10:44 AM – 7 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Someone writing the article didn’t get scaling. Sweden is small. Size is a dominant characteristic.https://twitter.com/pascalbouvier/status/916632044196724736 Permalink 4:54 AM – 7 Oct 2017

@mikeadsit Roundup kills more than weeds. Beneficial soil bacteria face a weed-killing threat from above | Cornell Chronicle http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/06/aristildeglyphosate Permalink 6:12 PM – 6 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Please, this is only for US residents who follow me on Twitter. Where did you get the last book you’ve read? Permalink 5:25 PM – 6 Oct 2017

@nntaleb “Tings” I learned today: a- There is no money in glamor (W’s stake is 130 m pretax) b- You don’t have to be really rich to buy into politics pic.twitter.com/9wNWwr8EFN Permalink 5:05 PM – 6 Oct 2017

@nntaleb 3/3 The more people do “data” the less they understand its information. Permalink 3:22 PM – 6 Oct 2017

@nntaleb In other words, don’t cross a river because it is 4 feet deep ON AVERAGE. Gabish? #Antifragile Permalink 3:21 PM – 6 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Harvey W. was a master at virtue signaling. Pseudo-left: they endorse causes to feel virtuous.https://medium.com/incerto/the-merchandising-of-virtue-b548762658f0 Permalink 3:09 PM – 6 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Another person who doesn’t understand convexity.https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/916418298186694656 Permalink 2:56 PM – 6 Oct 2017

@izag2010 @izag2010 Firearm incidents have thin tailed propability Distributions, Terrorism, Fat tailed you Imbeciles! @nntaleb Permalink 2:54 PM – 6 Oct 2017

@GuruAnaerobic Mark Sissons is right – being obsessed with Keto misses the point. As @nntaleb wud say, it’s an insult to variationhttps://www.marksdailyapple.com/where-i-part-ways-with-the-popular-keto-movement/ Permalink 5:18 AM – 6 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Did someone answer this idiot?https://twitter.com/ftmag/status/915833997145595904 Permalink 5:52 PM – 5 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Squid ink pic.twitter.com/O3qSCTY8Vu Permalink 10:25 AM – 5 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Counter to Arabists BS vendors, there was in 4th C. Roman province called “Phoenicia” & there were “Phoenicians”. Libanius (Autobiography) pic.twitter.com/4Drb9552BR Permalink 8:04 AM – 4 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Yeah, yeah, yeahhttps://twitter.com/thespainreport/status/915527395528110080 Permalink 4:17 AM – 4 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Cirillo lektchuring my class on extreme value distributions pic.twitter.com/s1D5EXglUr Permalink 3:28 PM – 3 Oct 2017

@nntaleb OK,OK, new title again pic.twitter.com/kyRFZvRU5x Permalink 12:58 PM – 3 Oct 2017

@nntaleb OK, OK, So new subtitle pic.twitter.com/yAzfereSrz Permalink 6:15 AM – 3 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Finally, @DrCirillo came to spend a couple of weeks in New York. We plan on finishing the book and publishing by February. pic.twitter.com/cPLSrUZREd Permalink 5:52 AM – 3 Oct 2017

@nntaleb This economist gets it that *some* doctors do more harm than good. But doesn’t realize we shd be much better off w/o economists than with.https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/915182646480838657 Permalink 5:30 AM – 3 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Una lezzione Calabrese, la lezzione “na vota u mese” (once a month) pic.twitter.com/8BoYR9K6Vg Permalink 7:31 AM – 2 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Friends, can Anyone answer:What are the proportions if haplogroups/ subclades in Catalunya? Permalink 6:42 AM – 2 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Real World Risk Seminar: No thought police, no pol correctness, nothing is off-limits. (Nov 13-17) @financequant http://realworldrisk.com/pictorial_view_of_the_program_by_dhaval Permalink 5:29 AM – 2 Oct 2017

@nntaleb What I learned today: Ottomans used the Western (AD) calendar (1899).https://twitter.com/OttomanArchive/status/914565507071823875 Permalink 4:45 AM – 2 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Lindy: Progress means change, but not too fast. pic.twitter.com/7vr5C6GkfG Permalink 3:24 PM – 1 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Catalunya. Permalink 2:22 PM – 1 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Never argue w/ pple on twitter. Expose people’s arguments for others to see. More generally, you argue with the audience, not the person.https://twitter.com/Mangan150/status/914542702938730497 Permalink 12:21 PM – 1 Oct 2017

@nntaleb A function in Mathematica to get the [a]-Mean (mean across all permutations); helps w/ Miurhead’s ineq & other uses of a generalized mean. pic.twitter.com/ClIJzpeU8V Permalink 12:05 PM – 1 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Where is Orwell? Replaced by monoculture-promoting, reputation-minded, pseudoleftist wusses. Wusses.https://twitter.com/WillMcHoebag/status/914452597205069824 Permalink 5:46 AM – 1 Oct 2017

@nntaleb Where is Orwell? Replaced by monoculture-promoting, reputation-minded, pseudoleftist wusses. Wusses. https://twitter.com/WillMcHoebag/status/914452597205069824 Permalink 5:46 AM – 1 Oct 2017

@PZalloua 2-Sunset over temples of Astarte (left) and Baal Amon (right). Cadiz pic.twitter.com/2q5SRur9yi Permalink 2:50 AM – 1 Oct 2017

@nntaleb This holds largely for EastMed and partly for WestMeds. Permalink 1:33 PM – 30 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Population Genetics du Jour: If Armenians/Georgians/Iranians(N)/Anatolians/Kurds look Mediterranean, it’s because Meds originate from there. Permalink 12:54 PM – 30 Sep 2017

@nntaleb In academia, there is no difference between academia & the real world. In the real world, there is. (inspired by Yogi Berra)https://twitter.com/DrTomFlynn/status/902647984000827392 Permalink 11:32 AM – 30 Sep 2017

@nntaleb “Dear Dr T, Someone sent me an article in which you wrote [some insult] abt me” Translation: “I googled my name & found your mentioning me” Permalink 11:29 AM – 30 Sep 2017

@nntaleb “Privatized” homeland security, if you want to see it that way.https://twitter.com/theeconomist/status/914134920741695489 Permalink 9:20 AM – 30 Sep 2017

@nntaleb A new challenge. Initial from @erugli , @CutTheKnotMath pic.twitter.com/bs1cHjf5ZX Permalink 4:30 AM – 30 Sep 2017

@nntaleb The skin in the game (symmetry) Q is: Would you like your daughter to appear in Playboy? If so, then do the interview. Otherwise, shut up Permalink 3:15 AM – 30 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Partial list of interviewees… Two-faced “left” intellectuals using a vehicle demeaning to women for own self-promotion. pic.twitter.com/bcFVOMQDuW Permalink 11:43 AM – 29 Sep 2017

@maircomm And a former colleague, a Hungarian: “The problem with Nassim Taleb is not that he’s an —hole. Nassim Taleb is an —hole. The problem with Nassim Taleb is that he is right.” Permalink 7:13 AM – 29 Sep 2017

@CutTheKnotMath Kunihiko Chikaya’s Inequality https://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Algebra/Kunny.shtml #FigureThat #math #algebra #inequality ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/5PSfS17eHm”> pic.twitter.com/5PSfS17eHm Permalink 7:08 AM – 29 Sep 2017

@nntaleb An “interview” in Playboy is the equivalent of putting a prayer room in the middle of a bordello, w/the excuse that it attracts worshippers. Permalink 5:14 AM – 29 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Genetic Literacy Project is a Monsanto mouthpiece meant to smear scientists who disagree. Should NEVER be relied upon. Gabish? Permalink 3:12 AM – 29 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Nice to wake up to such great news. Delenda Monsanto! Euro Parliament decide to bar Monsanto lobbyists https://www.ft.com/content/5c1c61e6-a457-11e7-b797-b61809486fe2 via @FT Permalink 2:47 AM – 29 Sep 2017

@DirkAntonvM If there is only one article you want to read this Fall, let it be this one. It explains so much of the turmoil around the world.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/913359606356877312 Permalink 2:41 AM – 29 Sep 2017

@AJA_Cortes People with muscular necks don’t get fucked with Permalink 3:53 PM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb So, Mary Beard, with all this career bloviating in books you can’t tell the difference between DESCRIPTIVE & NORMATIVE? Permalink 2:48 PM – 28 Sep 2017

@SwaidanCeline Ohhhhh pleasseee: عُقْد: necklace. عِِقد: decade. عَقْد: contract. عَقَدَ: held. عَقَّدَ: complicated. عُقَدْ: knots.https://twitter.com/theweirdworld/status/913461743162134528 Permalink 1:15 PM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mary Beard ou are hinting that I stand AGAINST equality? You keep proving you are intellectualy DISHONEST, insecure, and a BS artist. Permalink 1:06 PM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Replace “religion police” in this NYT Op-Ed about what happened to @AkyolinEnglish by “thought police” & notice there is NO difference.https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/913463407076106241 Permalink 12:58 PM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb What “humble” brag? There is nothing humble about me and I do NOT hide it. Gabish? Permalink 12:37 PM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Was told it was the most impactful & most read interview on the planet. Many “serious” authors did it: Nabokov, Mailer, Moravia, Rand… Permalink 12:24 PM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Playboy. I can proudly say that the Playboy Interview is the first interview I ever declined, when I was invited in 2008. Permalink 11:50 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@sprenten Only about 5 people read this tweet and understand it was made to make you think and not to confirm a bias! Permalink 11:42 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Tax plan: if passed, will it be retro-effective for 2017 (as was Reagan’s)? Permalink 10:05 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@DeadLiftCapital just as de Tocqueville described pic.twitter.com/b4FpyKP1Bl Permalink 6:45 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Not just Byzantine, though. The DNA of the Koura, shows some Krusader genes. Mountains nearby: Armenian genes (Mardaitis) @PZalloua pic.twitter.com/upZIjvRhfA Permalink 6:41 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb IYI: “He has mentioned quantum mechanics at least twice in the past 5 years in conversations that had nothing to do w/physics.” Chap 6 ,SITGhttps://twitter.com/dandolfa/status/913225599489118208 Permalink 6:33 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Those who have equal rights today are complaining much, much more than when they didn’t have them. Permalink 6:06 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb The old technique is that if your target has thick skin/f*** you money, attack pple close to him.https://medium.com/incerto/the-skin-of-others-in-your-game-3f51d8ccc3fb Permalink 5:52 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Dear friends, Someone anonymous I’ve blocked are targeting gents I interract w/ & harrass them. I suggest blocking & reporting to twitter. Permalink 5:25 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Only 5000 years gap between Syria and Saudi Barbaria.https://twitter.com/leithfadel/status/772601014226653184 Permalink 4:13 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Minority rule https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 https://twitter.com/WestmonsterUK/status/913348073077792768 Permalink 4:07 AM – 28 Sep 2017

@CutTheKnotMath Here’s I put it up. Thank you https://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Algebra/erugli.shtml ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/r3AW7zOkTc”> pic.twitter.com/r3AW7zOkTc Permalink 7:04 PM – 27 Sep 2017

@HenricsonJacob Thrilled to be joining @nntaleb and friends for Real World Risk workshop in November. #MakeRiskRealAgain Permalink 12:20 PM – 27 Sep 2017

@CutTheKnotMath A simple inequality with exponents in two variables https://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Algebra/InequalityWithExponents.shtml #FigureThat #math #algebra #inequality ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/jD6UiPXZOB”> pic.twitter.com/jD6UiPXZOB Permalink 9:51 AM – 27 Sep 2017

@nntaleb The Koura valley stayed off and on Byzantine for a while.https://twitter.com/hagiasophiatr/status/913038071532269568 Permalink 7:22 AM – 27 Sep 2017

@nntaleb A footnote on associated accusations of “sectarianism” pic.twitter.com/WO5mzI1tpi Permalink 6:22 AM – 27 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Final Devaluation of “Racism”: Arabs/Turks accuse Kurds of “racism” for wanting their own state Kurds accuse them of “racism” for opposing Permalink 5:41 AM – 27 Sep 2017

@JudicialWatch The FBI collaborated w/ the IRS in the IRS scandal. The IRS Commish should be removed from office. Learn more here: http://jwatch.us/vCwTo5 ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/icV20zNueB”> pic.twitter.com/icV20zNueB Permalink 2:45 PM – 26 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Isocrates: Treat other states the way you’d like to by treated by them. Silver Rule is the foundation of modern society. Apply to states. pic.twitter.com/Q66kGjJDg1 Permalink 11:58 AM – 26 Sep 2017

@nntaleb 1918: Woodrow Wilson’s doctrine of self determination. 2017: US/EU Position on Kurdistan driven by oil interests. Permalink 11:34 AM – 26 Sep 2017

@nntaleb The only way to undertand how something works is by figuring out how to break it.https://twitter.com/strifenjustice/status/912697416368967680 Permalink 11:29 AM – 26 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Politico story does not report that Monsanto ghostwrote Helmut Greim paper on glyphostate.https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/912694078088851456 Permalink 9:25 AM – 26 Sep 2017

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— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 19, 2017

@mikeandallie @nntaleb recommended this book 3 weeks ago. This chart in the beginning explains a puzzle I’ve wondered about in insurance for 15 years. pic.twitter.com/xLpjl3dQkt Permalink 4:42 PM – 25 Sep 2017

@yaneerbaryam #AI: Using it and consequences for business risk & opportunity w/ @nntaleb @alex_pentland scholarships available: https://lnkd.in/dUP9gDA Permalink 2:09 PM – 25 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Just a reminder that we’ve survived 13 centuries.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/912303968344211456 Permalink 8:10 AM – 25 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Byzantine hymns in Greek in Amioun yesterday. pic.twitter.com/iJ1uWZxBoe Permalink 6:13 AM – 25 Sep 2017

@FriedrichHayek Whatever you think of Taleb, he grabs on to core problems that others ignore or don’t see and shakes them like an attack dog on a leg.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/911948333085872128 Permalink 10:41 AM – 24 Sep 2017

@chelenki @nntaleb just about died laughing reading this review on #blackswan https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/911624254558367744 Permalink 10:12 AM – 24 Sep 2017

@nntaleb I am dumb when I don’t have skin in the game. pic.twitter.com/ZsGZyJe1NU Permalink 6:40 AM – 24 Sep 2017

@VanessaBeeley New York first responders connect to #AlQaeda, you know the group they think is behind 9/11. #World_gone_Mad @21WIRE @RenieriArtshttps://twitter.com/mayorsCAU/status/911622888482099201 Permalink 3:37 AM – 24 Sep 2017

@nntaleb And the Solid Eric Weinstein is misquoted in same NYT article. Anyone who cites the NYT has a pbm.https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/911665817762148352 Permalink 3:00 PM – 23 Sep 2017

@nntaleb https://medium.com/incerto/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-5bf98104cea2 Permalink 2:49 PM – 23 Sep 2017

@nntaleb This GROSS misrepresentation by NYT is the reason I will not pre-release my book to them for reviews. They will have to buy it after publ.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/911705844882051073 Permalink 2:47 PM – 23 Sep 2017

@nntaleb NYT misrepresents thesis as “biologically less capable of engineering.” NYT has pbms in reading comprehension!!!https://nyti.ms/2yjYlL6 Permalink 2:36 PM – 23 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Fact checking something for the book. Do royals have to take more risks during war? pic.twitter.com/XDHUs9PYK9 Permalink 1:42 PM – 23 Sep 2017

@nntaleb The picture in the thread is at Heathrow. U.K. raises tons of cash by marketing to label- conscious Gucci- wearing rich foreigners w/kids. Permalink 5:36 AM – 23 Sep 2017

@nntaleb What I mean by “education” is the current institutional framework. It bears less & less resemblance to its historical antecedents. Permalink 5:24 AM – 23 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Education needs to KEEP proving itself. Permalink 4:43 AM – 23 Sep 2017

@nntaleb No. Education was, at some point great, fast becoming rent-seeking for a group of parasites IYIs who indoctrinate our youths. pic.twitter.com/IklI1CYsp0 Permalink 4:41 AM – 23 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Observe the variability between individuals > variability in age (distrib of age). The same applies to mental sharpness.https://twitter.com/MongoAggression/status/911369414053847041 Permalink 4:32 PM – 22 Sep 2017

@andrejpwalker Any Conservative who had put 40,000 (mostly) immigrant workers on the dole in one pen stroke would’ve been RUINED for it. #Uber @SadiqKhan pic.twitter.com/WNE2agcw72 Permalink 2:03 PM – 22 Sep 2017

@johnabarnes32 Editing a @nntaleb aphorism: don’t take someone’s book recommendation seriously unless he’s read it twice. Permalink 9:57 AM – 22 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Minority rule in action. One Polish, one Lithuanian, one Latvian, 3 neighboring countries, conversing in English. (With permission). pic.twitter.com/VarPydi6JC Permalink 8:52 AM – 22 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Now that the book is finished (sort of), I can do probability for entertainment. pic.twitter.com/iqurPT7zlh Permalink 7:30 AM – 22 Sep 2017

@thackerpd .@dannyhakim story on #Monsanto & dicamba link to this video looking at #dicamba impacts across Americahttps://vimeo.com/232115660 Permalink 7:01 AM – 22 Sep 2017

@DineshDSouza This reads like a parody but apparently isn’t–they’re even more crooked than we thoughthttps://twitter.com/kwilli1046/status/911059276554280960 Permalink 6:16 AM – 22 Sep 2017

@nntaleb “Dr” please show me a SINGLE paper by historians not misestimating violence. A single one will do. Tawkers… Permalink 4:39 AM – 22 Sep 2017

@CutTheKnotMath Curious #mahfacthttps://twitter.com/SamuelGWalters/status/911086139590578178 Permalink 4:30 AM – 22 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Abandoned swimming pool. pic.twitter.com/02dS3DAsrN Permalink 4:23 AM – 22 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Tourism: visiting abandoned Soviet structures in Lithuania. #Realworld tourism. pic.twitter.com/oivAeIXkAK Permalink 3:53 AM – 22 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Pippa Malgren @DrPippaM took a break from signing, so I signed a few of her books. pic.twitter.com/QtPVDyavkL Permalink 3:05 AM – 22 Sep 2017

@nntaleb This link between Marathon and “saving” Western Civilization is what I call overfitting. History is largely bullshitters.https://twitter.com/thehistoryguy/status/910966259629592576 Permalink 5:36 PM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb 1) The strategy of Monsanto-funded smear campaigners like Dietwald Claus is to wait for someone to attack someone then come in w/remarks. Permalink 12:01 PM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb I know, calling “idiot” someone who is not an MD & reads archives for a living, yet has “Dr” in his twitter handle would hurrrrrrrrrrrrrt. Permalink 9:02 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Another idiot who probably overfits without knowing it is a bad thing.https://twitter.com/BernardWilkin/status/910889204288311296 Permalink 8:33 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb I actually mean historians are worse: they don’t understand what “overfitting” means & think by doing it they are “sophisticated”. Permalink 8:14 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Thalassa! After a long walk in the pine forest, the Baltic Sea. pic.twitter.com/kcTT4R6Jxv Permalink 6:06 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr Pullman is a bullshit vendor, so you need to help him out a bit. Permalink 5:23 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb #Antifragilehttps://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/910833182966272001 Permalink 4:55 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb And if historians keep saying “no, we don’t overfit”, answer: well… yes you do overfit & don’t know it. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2876315 Permalink 3:19 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Can someone answer that idiot?https://twitter.com/nickhassey/status/910785313311686656 Permalink 2:43 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Palanga, Lithuania. About to start my lektchur. pic.twitter.com/IzYnrBgFUF Permalink 12:59 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Typical overfitting by…historians. This was written before.https://twitter.com/lottelydia/status/910769747725307904 Permalink 12:38 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Why are you so dishonest as to validate my point abt historians? Answer THIS: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2876315 Permalink 12:27 AM – 21 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Another ignorant-ignorant of their ignorance:@carolinepennock Permalink 11:52 PM – 20 Sep 2017

@nntaleb The remarkable ability of people of being so ignorant as to not understand the charges of ignorance levelled at them https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2876315## https://twitter.com/DrSKBarker/status/910754938573266945 Permalink 11:47 PM – 20 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Even better, wait 1 week minimum before answering nonimmediate mail. Best is 1 month.https://twitter.com/StephenFleming/status/910746347346604032 Permalink 11:08 PM – 20 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Our synthesis of pbm w/historiography. Another one on misestimations on the way. @BenedictEvans is an idiot. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2876315## Permalink 11:01 PM – 20 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Benedict Evans @BenedictEvans is an imbecile who just throws words without knowing what he is talking about. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2876315## https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/910716132675293186 Permalink 10:58 PM – 20 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Give someone an inch, they will ask for a mile. Permalink 6:59 AM – 20 Sep 2017

@nntaleb After the Kurds (eventually) get their state, you can imagine a breakup of Turkey.https://twitter.com/joshua_landis/status/910490777658314753 Permalink 6:13 AM – 20 Sep 2017

@nntaleb When you want a fool to teach your children how to NOT think, Monbiot works well. Permalink 5:10 AM – 20 Sep 2017

@GuruAnaerobic I think this qualifies as one of @nntaleb’s “literalists”.https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/910462575720239104 Permalink 5:02 AM – 20 Sep 2017

@byzantinepower Don’t claim to be “woke” if u haven’t got this book #Byzantium pic.twitter.com/CbY0kD7X24 Permalink 4:57 AM – 20 Sep 2017

@nntaleb They also teach them to lie. https://twitter.com/atif_rz/status/910239153018642432 Permalink 4:10 PM – 19 Sep 2017

@francispouliot_ Thanks to @nntaleb and @EconTalker for inspiring this essay on emergent order and antifragility. Thanks Bitcoin ecosystem for making it realhttps://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/910203565297291264 Permalink 11:29 AM – 19 Sep 2017

@nntaleb There is something common to modern “liberal” and Sunni-Salafi education: They teach students answers rather than how to ask questions. Permalink 9:13 AM – 19 Sep 2017

@garyruskin How #Monsanto Manufactured ‘Outrage’ at #Glyphosate Cancer Classification It Expected http://bit.ly/2hfxY69 by @careygillam @USRightToKnow Permalink 8:40 AM – 19 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Lecturing on catastrophic/tail risks in Bermuda. When in Rome… pic.twitter.com/oWs7NNwtJ4 Permalink 4:37 AM – 19 Sep 2017

@nntaleb The problem of SJW, universalists, globalists, Islamists, neo-atheists, and modernists is that they take everything, every word) literally. Permalink 3:05 AM – 19 Sep 2017

@nntaleb The point is not that @peterdaou has the IQ of a cauliflower. It’s that the press is 1) a monoculture, 2) dying a slow but certain death. https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc/status/909907008614289408 Permalink 3:40 PM – 18 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Copy editors are English majors victims of thought police… One wanted to change “American-style Options” to “U.S.-style” as more PC. Permalink 10:58 AM – 18 Sep 2017

@martyrmade As @johnrobb points out, this cartoon is no analogy for political/financial/journalism experts because pilots have skin in the game @nntaleb pic.twitter.com/c5B70r4CQd Permalink 10:44 AM – 18 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Corrected. I tend to post on twitter without even rereading. pic.twitter.com/u3JXovmpZe Permalink 5:51 AM – 18 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Organization of the book. pic.twitter.com/0rkjPy8q8E Permalink 5:41 AM – 18 Sep 2017

@sentantiq “When the government is at its most corrupt, the more laws [there are].” corruptissima re publica plurimae leges #Tacitus Permalink 4:14 PM – 17 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Classical misestimation and biases by historians: history is anecdotes + BS + hearsay+ occasional truths…https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/908280018320723968 Permalink 5:31 AM – 17 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Fiction vs Nonfiction, go with fiction.https://twitter.com/paul_jorgenson/status/909390775900884992 Permalink 5:21 AM – 17 Sep 2017

@turlevnon #syriac_calendar pic.twitter.com/AsCBvcUHvP Permalink 10:35 PM – 16 Sep 2017

@nntaleb I am adding this to Skin In the Game. Anyone knows a good translator of TEX into Word? pic.twitter.com/JLZLIjPcpc Permalink 3:06 PM – 15 Sep 2017

@nntaleb The highest compliment. But I wonder which group I personally fall into.https://twitter.com/sensecurator/status/908745783985315840 Permalink 2:45 PM – 15 Sep 2017

@pauld1981 Symmetry you’re poor: they can corrupt u by giving you money -cheap you’re rich: they can corrupt u by not confiscating your money -cheaper Permalink 11:55 AM – 15 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Now that the book is done: Writing is 95% walking, 5% sitting. Mathematics is 95% sitting, 5% walking. Permalink 10:41 AM – 15 Sep 2017

@ThalesLives Ever since reading @nntaleb’s books and articles, my bullshit detector has been much improved. If you haven’t read his work yet, do so. Permalink 10:10 AM – 15 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Friday Follow: @CutTheKnotMath for mathematical brainteasers. Like finding a parking spot in NY, never easy, never impossible #TwitterMathhttps://twitter.com/CutTheKnotMath/status/908353890701242369 Permalink 8:41 AM – 15 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Little by little, a file on the behavior of MSM w/r to Syria is being built.https://twitter.com/catoletters/status/908428948513714176 Permalink 1:47 PM – 14 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Friends, any translation of this (tarqtu’l khalqa tarran…)? Thanks pic.twitter.com/BDm9loTqYh Permalink 11:02 AM – 14 Sep 2017

@philipbstark 1/ Probs w #GMO crops not just farm practices & herbicides: https://archive.org/details/AlteredGenesTwistedTruthByStevenDrukerHD1080p .@nntaleb .@bittman .@UCBerkeleyFood @michaelpollan Permalink 8:42 AM – 14 Sep 2017

@Biixi001 Can U believe!? NewYorker just outed @nntaleb – not just flaneuring/chasing lost wisdom&IYIs, also taking care of lost property in Paris pic.twitter.com/3x8jH4z4VN Permalink 8:00 AM – 14 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life Permalink 7:41 AM – 14 Sep 2017

@nntaleb So Mr Makram Rabah, pls explain why your work should be read when: You (willfully) mislabel You fabricate facts You lie on your resumé Permalink 5:14 AM – 14 Sep 2017

@nntaleb This expression @ektrit you seem to attribute to Saint Morcos of Ephesus. True? pic.twitter.com/LnDAVM8EvY Permalink 4:13 AM – 14 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Historians focus on the lurid and discount absence of evidence, with huge distortions in accounts. pic.twitter.com/YePixIeYa5 Permalink 3:43 AM – 14 Sep 2017

@DavidDuPouy Antifragile is BIG in Japan @nntaleb pic.twitter.com/E2VhpCqLRe Permalink 5:12 PM – 13 Sep 2017

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@nntaleb Done! Changed subtitle again. Now copyediting & fight with copyeditors… pic.twitter.com/jZaathaYVD Permalink 3:03 PM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr Rabah, it seems isn’t just fabricating w/events but faking his resumé. Are others in the chain s.a. @jobahout @BenteScheller also liars? Permalink 1:42 PM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr Rabah, he who lies once is unreliable. Looks like you also misrepresenting your position? Are you a “professor”? https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i7xThEIAAAAJ&hl=en Permalink 1:22 PM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb G., we know Mr Rabah is tot. unreliable, even lunatic. Make the house of cards collapse w/those using him as source.https://twitter.com/GeorgeJNasr/status/908056627219234816 Permalink 1:06 PM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr Rabah,consider in replies that followers are v. intelligent &detect your unreliability in the chain of Syria newshttps://twitter.com/makramrabah/status/908043824479571968 Permalink 12:39 PM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb From SITG pic.twitter.com/5kNA2dz5zr Permalink 11:39 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Another “policy” fellow, Joseph Bahout @jobahout (whom I’ve met) at, of all places @CarnegieEndow disseminating from same dubious source. pic.twitter.com/Ig8EYZjFJW Permalink 8:12 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb To show you how messed up our information flow on Syria, see this “policy” specialist @BenteScheller citing a liar. pic.twitter.com/3x6RUEU3Ng Permalink 7:47 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Now that I am done with Mr Makram Rabah (see thread above) beware that his posts and journalism are read as source on the Syrian situation. Permalink 7:03 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr Makram Rabah, pls explain why your journalism shd be read when: 1) You misdefine terms, mislabel & don’t care 2) You make up facts Permalink 6:37 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb To assess you need to compare # killed while on autopilot vs # killed w/o autopilot, not just look at one single lurid case.https://twitter.com/gedownie/status/907957444331966471 Permalink 6:29 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr @makramrabah, my participation in the UAE literary festival was pro-bono. Why are you lying about $$? Why are you a Liar? Liar. Permalink 6:15 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr @makramrabah, why does your inability to define terms makes you LIE about “Gulf money”? Can you show evidence of $$? Why are you lying? Permalink 6:11 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Scary if true. Looks like it is true.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/907941612625518593 Permalink 5:22 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr @makramrabah are you aware that random labels do not constitute an explanation of why you misdefine very elementary terms? Permalink 4:31 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr @makramrabah you are throwing more random labels to explain the misuse of a label. Can you write down a simple expl., as in 6th grade? Permalink 4:24 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr @makramrabah you are not explaining why one shd heed someone like you or @iyad_elbaghdadi soooo ignorant to misdefine elementary terms. Permalink 4:16 AM – 13 Sep 2017

@nntaleb So Mr @makramrabah if you mislabel something so elementary, why should anyone read your other crap? Please explain. Permalink 1:49 PM – 12 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mr @makramrabah, racism is imparting skills to a race, not studying population migrations. Are all Syrian rebels as ignorant as you? Permalink 1:18 PM – 12 Sep 2017

@RogueRad Why I think doctors should read books by @nntaleb http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2017/09/12/why-doctors-should-read-books-by-nassim-taleb/ cc @drjohnm Permalink 10:34 AM – 12 Sep 2017

@nntaleb If you reject unfounded blame, you must also reject unjustified praise. Permalink 8:53 AM – 12 Sep 2017

@RandPaul Where is the anti-war left demanding the wars end? Where is the constitional conservative right demanding Congress reclaim its war powers? Permalink 4:25 PM – 11 Sep 2017

@nntaleb On my wayhttps://twitter.com/harrydcrane/status/906555847219859459 Permalink 12:31 PM – 11 Sep 2017

@nntaleb My take pic.twitter.com/Z3o48RcMvK Permalink 4:57 AM – 11 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Probability Brain Teaser du Jour. cc:@mikeandallie ,@LorenzoWVilla , @CutTheKnotMath pic.twitter.com/Uj3p2K2VvJ Permalink 4:27 AM – 11 Sep 2017

@SameeraKhan While we mourn the lives lost 16 yrs ago today, we should also remind ourselves of this gem. Stop funding, arming, & glorifying terrorists. pic.twitter.com/JC1wCl3D9o Permalink 2:39 AM – 11 Sep 2017

@ThomasSowell Quote from Black Rednecks & White Liberals: https://buff.ly/2vk1w8R ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/cGIAkn16UA”> pic.twitter.com/cGIAkn16UA Permalink 10:03 AM – 10 Sep 2017

@nntaleb When the beard is black, take the reasoning, ignore conclusions. When gray, take both reasoning & conclusions. When white, just conclusions. Permalink 8:18 AM – 10 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Someone in population genetics wd detect the J2 haplogroup, the “Med” gene. I suspect the J2a subclade, coatal (Greco-Phoenician-Roman Army) Permalink 5:11 AM – 10 Sep 2017

@nntaleb My kind of party. Mare Nostrum.https://twitter.com/scaramucci/status/906600491307687937 Permalink 7:32 PM – 9 Sep 2017

@HarryDCrane Full slate for this year’s Foundations of #Probability seminar starting Mon with @nntaleb — Central problems with probability pic.twitter.com/VbJ6k7fN5H Permalink 9:32 AM – 9 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Above & below shd explain why recent paper on 1200+ genes determining intelligence is utter BS cc:@charlesmurrayhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/padzf3mtekuuf76/Error%20and%20Dimensionality.pptx.pdf?dl=0 Permalink 6:02 AM – 9 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Friends, added an Appendix to the minority rule. For comments. Is it easy to grasp? pic.twitter.com/J0fCc91wf5 Permalink 5:31 AM – 9 Sep 2017

@nntaleb 6) You can do history but one needs to qualify conclusions & exclude some class of statements. Permalink 8:19 AM – 8 Sep 2017

@nntaleb 4) Historians have no clue about survivorship bias, so they mistake visible properties for properties. 5) Historians ignore asymmetries. Permalink 8:18 AM – 8 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Historians mistake an upper/lower bound for an absolute date. For instance “earliest settlement found” for earliest settlement” Permalink 7:53 AM – 8 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Practically all data prior to the first war are suspicious. Permalink 7:47 AM – 8 Sep 2017

@nntaleb War data are pulled out of the hat. Historians are only reliable for (some) anecdotes. Or as we saw with Mary Beard, good at bu***tting.https://twitter.com/ektrit/status/906147773384404992 Permalink 7:14 AM – 8 Sep 2017

@nntaleb This fraudster Julie Gunlock starts from the basis that anti-GMO is anti-science. Not just clueless but dangerous. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/PrecautionaryPrinciple.html https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/905966418063130624 Permalink 6:39 PM – 7 Sep 2017

@nntaleb No, wuss! It’s unethical.They will do it to others Select a random few(5) who made false claims,make their lives miserable for 1y Never stop https://twitter.com/TolstoySays/status/905956048778887168 Permalink 6:30 PM – 7 Sep 2017

@NoArtInPolitics Headline sounds like something @nntaleb might sayhttps://twitter.com/wsj/status/905933745529737216 Permalink 4:29 PM – 7 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Clear evidence of (statistical) bias Can be attributed to 1) NYT doctors up the list, 2) NYT overweighs cappuccino & latte bookstores.https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/905852971233288192 Permalink 11:11 AM – 7 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Mechanical skills matter less interpreted as Germans have no mechamical skills. In Fooled by Randomness: there is randomness -> itsallrandom Permalink 10:09 AM – 7 Sep 2017

@nntaleb For a chief investment officer, Mark Yusko makes a 6-year old misinterpretation. Is this typical or an outlier?https://twitter.com/markyusko/status/905836528185643008 Permalink 10:06 AM – 7 Sep 2017

@iMetaldog ex ancillary parts for proper engine functionality there are smaller # of moving part in EM v ICE tho not apple to apple comp to begin with! pic.twitter.com/Uk3SbS8irD Permalink 9:30 AM – 7 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Expertise in roulette gambling requires much more probability than carpentry; Pop genetics require much more probability than biology! Permalink 7:22 AM – 7 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Announcement. For personal reasons, we had to move the Real World Risk 6 to November 13. http://realworldrisk.com/pictorial_view_of_the_program_by_dhaval Permalink 6:52 AM – 7 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Have you visited a gas station “when power is down everywhere”?https://twitter.com/SFLTVBossMan/status/905773082249494528 Permalink 5:45 AM – 7 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Tesla is computer w/wheels,~5% of moving parts of BMW Mechanical expertise is archaic. I’ve rarely seen softw/hardware designed in Europe.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/905763378437730305 Permalink 5:14 AM – 7 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Show this to your journo friends (if any) to avoid @tracyalloway’s conflation of “criticism” & strawman deformationhttps://medium.com/incerto/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-5bf98104cea2 Permalink 4:41 AM – 7 Sep 2017

@alacunha Have you tried this? Choquinhos com tinta. Baby sepia cooked in ink. Typical of algarve. You have to go there for the real deal pic.twitter.com/2KC7bvjkiT Permalink 5:51 PM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb This is real squid ink, tonight. pic.twitter.com/8yfwikdxwj Permalink 4:44 PM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Last thing we need to hear is French are Meds. They are Reverse-Meds. Only Meds in S. parts that spoke no French (Provencal, Nicois, etc.) Permalink 2:15 PM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb There is a discussion of taboos against mixing fish and cheese in Med. I am still confused. https://www.facebook.com/13012333374/posts/10153194618113375 Permalink 2:11 PM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb My kind of lecture.https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/905424652595494912 Permalink 1:39 PM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb No, no, no, no. Never, never any cheese on Med with fish products. You get deported from Sicily/Calabria (if you are lucky).https://twitter.com/mikaelv80/status/905520302452596736 Permalink 1:27 PM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Those who believe clmate chnge is real Those who explain everything by CC Those for whom policies shdbe precautionary whether CC real or not Permalink 10:27 AM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb 1-Occupations in which one is more dependent on opinion of colleagues than end users or axiomatic base (math) end up rotting. (#SummarySITG) Permalink 7:12 AM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb 1-Occupations in which one is more dependent on opinion of colleagues than end users degrades. ex: journalism, bureaucr, (#SummarySITG) Permalink 7:06 AM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Zeus appreciated my sacrifices; is making my wish come true that MSM self-destructs. He invented @kurteichenwald to accelerate the process. pic.twitter.com/MGLTCW6ks9 Permalink 6:19 AM – 6 Sep 2017

@DemosKypros Istanbul pogroms against the Greeks – 6-7 September ’55 #Greece #Turkey #Historyhttp://bit.ly/2gGmDb5 Permalink 6:03 AM – 6 Sep 2017

@HaroonChowdry We need clearer language to help distinguish. “Squid ink pasta” (i.e. squid ink in the pasta dough) vs. “pasta w/ squid ink sauce” Permalink 5:59 AM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Alert: This is fake squid ink (colored pasta). Real squid ink leaves stain marks on the dish.https://twitter.com/simoncarucci/status/905395836623970304 Permalink 4:49 AM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Will @kurteichenwald’s climate change “math” also prove a Trump-Russian conspiracy as is; or does it need additional variables?https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/905206621588119552 Permalink 4:18 AM – 6 Sep 2017

@nntaleb The whole point is that this is not “criticism”. Strawman is NOT criticism. Permalink 3:55 AM – 6 Sep 2017

@Wataizo This Eichenwald character better hope @nntaleb doesn’t get a hold of himhttps://twitter.com/Black999sunday/status/905160233906970624 Permalink 1:12 PM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Certainly @tracyalloway needs a straightforward lesson on the difference between news and fake news.https://medium.com/incerto/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-5bf98104cea2 Permalink 12:54 PM – 5 Sep 2017

@ArgaizR New paper @Cell_Metabolism. Beautiful example of anti-fragility. Volatility yields the best results! @nntaleb pic.twitter.com/8nTvxgEmvT Permalink 11:12 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb How @tracyalloway rigs her votehttps://twitter.com/robinwigg/status/905080835031883778 Permalink 7:52 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb There is more substance/rigor in every line of the INCERTO than what journo @tracyalloway has written all her life https://medium.com/incerto Permalink 7:21 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb +Got rich FROM politics +Helped crony capitalism +… Permalink 6:46 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb +Gave Wall Street the largest bonus pool in history in 2010 +Fought Skin in the Game rules +Fueled Identity Politics +Fed the IYI class Permalink 6:44 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb +Helped AlQaeda/extinction of NE Christians +Tried to destroy federalism +Let IYI bureaucrats “nudge” citizens +Overall enemy of libertyhttps://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/905059454554693632 Permalink 6:30 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Which is why I am calling Ron Paul, “A Roman among Greeks”. (a Pun on dedication of TBS to Benoit Mandelbrot:”A Greek among Romans”) pic.twitter.com/qs6j8V1H0k Permalink 5:53 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb For ergodicity and wealth, see this https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46 Which is whatIwantedtotalktoyouabout Permalink 5:43 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb I am shuttling from Leb to NY for my Tuesday class. Today is my 1rst lecture on Fat Tails.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/821374183234031616 Permalink 5:01 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb “The Romans judged their political system by asking not whether it made sense but whether it worked.” The clear minded @holland_tom Permalink 4:27 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Some idiot (finance prof) was arguing “had Trump invested his inheritance in market…” No, investors != market!https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf41029d3 Permalink 4:17 AM – 5 Sep 2017

@nntaleb No, do not join an NGO to save the world. Just take risks, start a business. https://medium.com/incerto/the-merchandising-of-virtue-b548762658f0 ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/taRzkoCSfw”> pic.twitter.com/taRzkoCSfw Permalink 9:32 AM – 4 Sep 2017

@nntaleb BS vendor @JeffDSachs tweeting to me a narrative betw. Houston flood & Texas climate policy. Economists have a severe difficulty with rigor. Permalink 5:52 AM – 4 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Connecting in an airport lounge in Morocco. Only way I get privacy on phone is speaking in Lebanese dialect. Nobody seems to understand it. Permalink 5:06 AM – 3 Sep 2017

@bjmdolal @nntaleb only person I can think of that this applies to.https://twitter.com/robertgreene/status/902156853823623168 Permalink 7:10 PM – 2 Sep 2017

@nntaleb This guy gets it. The value of the lawsuit is in the information you can get out of it. As with the Monsanto papers.https://twitter.com/ConLawWarrior/status/904110967738466308 Permalink 4:02 PM – 2 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Meanwhile my fight ag the UK thought police: I keep insulting them; they tried & tried & tried & failed to stop me, https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/CI0AuYqMoR”> pic.twitter.com/CI0AuYqMoR Permalink 3:58 PM – 2 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Nothing sad about it. Lawsuits are the ONLY defense mechanism for the individual against powerful groups. Thank you, American legal system!https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/904108850596515842 Permalink 3:39 PM – 2 Sep 2017

@nntaleb You need tail events for the revelation of elementary properties. Visibly only the store knew that people didn’t eat vegan.https://twitter.com/MattOswaltVA/status/903834627768324096 Permalink 2:06 PM – 2 Sep 2017

@AD_WHITMAN Roll your big a** down to Venezuela for a year. Come back and tell me how the #VenezuelaDiet (starving due to socialism) worked out for you. pic.twitter.com/r0UUqv4sJC Permalink 10:22 AM – 2 Sep 2017

@VergilDen “Not everything happens for a reason but everything that survives, survives for a reason” NNT Permalink 10:11 AM – 2 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Exccccccccellent question. Lindy being a noise filtering mechanism lowers every year the probability of spurious survival.https://twitter.com/DoctorLex/status/904000010899132416 Permalink 8:52 AM – 2 Sep 2017

@nntaleb People were not getting that the (alleged) food costs savings by GMOs (at huge risks) were DWARFED by more efficient food distribution. Permalink 7:39 PM – 1 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Bezos got that distrib =up to 83% food costs. Focus on distr, not risky “tech” product. Organic cheaper, GMO dead.http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-01/amazon-has-twice-many-fulfillment-centers-rest-entire-us-retail-industry Permalink 7:32 PM – 1 Sep 2017

@GuruAnaerobic “No BS Trader” @nntaleb vs IYI academic, BBC luvvie, “diversity”, imbecillo-bullshito-classico pic.twitter.com/pIuBtauDkv Permalink 8:04 AM – 1 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Friday Semitic Philology. RE @lsarsour: Sarsour means “pimp” in mod. Hebrew frm Aramaic סַרְסוּר (with a Samekh), Cricket with a Tsadeh. pic.twitter.com/wdguyqOlJr Permalink 7:16 AM – 1 Sep 2017

@nntaleb When someone makes an announcement saying “I have a great relationship with my wife”, you know a divorce is getting close.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/903614451999539200 Permalink 6:50 AM – 1 Sep 2017

@nntaleb Sarsour means cockroach in Arabic. It is very, very unfair to cockroaches.https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/903593280822173698 Permalink 5:22 AM – 1 Sep 2017

@normonics Classic @nntaleb pic.twitter.com/4uru8Ol6bB Permalink 6:26 PM – 31 Aug 2017

@nntaleb We think alike on this @rorysutherland pic.twitter.com/e242tAeIva Permalink 6:16 PM – 31 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I like to buy products made by egomaniac people. Or, at least people called arrogant. pic.twitter.com/c8W09vsfIK Permalink 6:11 PM – 31 Aug 2017

@nntaleb 13 Coffee Shops Around Phoenicia That Will Charm You https://www.beirut.com/l/52816 via @BeirutCityGuide Permalink 4:58 PM – 31 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Some marketing/framing savvy pple figured out that the most effective way to build a fascist movement is to call it: antifascist. Permalink 1:08 AM – 31 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Problem w/academic parasites isn’t just disconnect from the real world; it’s their lack of awareness of it. #SkinInTheGamehttps://twitter.com/drtomflynn/status/902647984000827392 Permalink 12:48 AM – 31 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Now if I called Monbiot an idiot, it is because of his promoting AlQaeda propaganda abt the Syrian war & fake stories abt Aleppo. Permalink 8:35 AM – 30 Aug 2017

@nntaleb My idea is to WORRY about our actions on climate out of PRECAUTION, not systematically attribute events to it. @yaneerbaryam Permalink 6:31 AM – 30 Aug 2017

@nntaleb From Silent Risk: the Lucretius problem. People don’t realize that systems deliver new maxima. pic.twitter.com/xtu5tLeNIp Permalink 5:48 AM – 30 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Point is that idiots like @GeorgeMonbiot are attributing Houston floods to Climate Change, rather than bad understanding of tail probability Permalink 4:59 AM – 30 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Think tanks are natural lobbies w/a facade of “research” Their cover allows them to censor dissent from monoculturehttps://nyti.ms/2whLSts Permalink 4:43 AM – 30 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Nero di seppia ( spaghetti con farro) pic.twitter.com/Hw5yOavHMY Permalink 5:39 PM – 29 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Chapters frm nxt book If the author doesn’t surprise the reader w/something every few pages, books & authors diehttps://medium.com/incerto Permalink 3:28 PM – 29 Aug 2017

@nntaleb When people talk about 500 y floods or 100 year rain, they are klueless abt tail distribution. The empirical distribution is NOT empirical! pic.twitter.com/XdrLf1gfgN Permalink 1:40 PM – 29 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I have never read #Antifragile under olive trees. I will try next week.https://twitter.com/petranovskaja/status/901747046113304576 Permalink 12:31 PM – 29 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Another benefit of Brexit seen 5 years ago in Antifragilehttps://twitter.com/tophtucker/status/902595164669177860 Permalink 11:35 AM – 29 Aug 2017

@nntaleb No, and it is not a violation of the First Am. if I block people like you who tweet stupid things to me; private workspace != public. Permalink 6:54 AM – 29 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Freedom of Expression is a central UNCONDITIONAL symmetry: You are allowed speech if I am allowed speech pic.twitter.com/iWeGP21DcO Permalink 6:18 AM – 29 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Main MARKER for group to be fascist-shmascist-smthng_ist regardless of what they call themselves left/right/diagonal: Public Expression Permalink 5:51 AM – 29 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The very idea of freedom of expression is to allow someone to tell others things they do not like to hear. Permalink 5:24 AM – 29 Aug 2017

@nntaleb In other words, see the surviving population after n generations, here 21 & compare to common processes. Permalink 6:15 PM – 28 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Trying to dabble w/population genetics under fat tails! So far, some intuitions. Some work for us, @DrCirillo cc: @PZalloua pic.twitter.com/zXsGCmow6O Permalink 6:12 PM – 28 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Free speech is so robust intellectually that arguments to try to suspend it are inconsistent w/one another & the rest of the corpus.https://twitter.com/CliffordAsness/status/902252554154762240 Permalink 2:10 PM – 28 Aug 2017

@nntaleb E bella la lingua italiana: “Chi troppo in alto sal cade sovente precipitevolissimevolmente” Permalink 12:51 PM – 28 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Letting someone w a razor is a sign of trust. Permalink 7:09 AM – 28 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Kalabrez’ lesson facima a barba curazol’ pic.twitter.com/73G2rDaIZ6 Permalink 7:07 AM – 28 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This problem came out of the statement (as generalization) that: P/E ratio of the market != weighted average P/E ratio of ind companies.https://twitter.com/CutTheKnotMath/status/902047463351177216 Permalink 5:43 AM – 28 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Journalist Interrogated, Fired For Story Linking CIA And Syria Weapons Flights | Zero Hedgehttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-28/journalist-interrogated-fired-story-linking-cia-and-syria-weapons-flights Permalink 5:23 AM – 28 Aug 2017

@nntaleb “…nec alte cadere nec graviter potest” Publilius Permalink 5:20 AM – 28 Aug 2017

@nntaleb If you want to punish an enemy, help put him on a pedestal. He will hurt himself falling from it. Permalink 4:57 AM – 28 Aug 2017

@JohnJSSoriano .@nntaleb has explained this well. Can’t make projection of worst case based on previous worst event. Wouldn’t have worked for prev event!https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/901885696075542531 Permalink 7:05 PM – 27 Aug 2017

@nntaleb https://youtu.be/9dKiLclupUM Permalink 2:37 PM – 27 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Added to The Logic of Risk Taking. People w skin in the game who take risks don’t like tail risk. https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf41029d3 ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/Bah4FJsiFZ”> pic.twitter.com/Bah4FJsiFZ Permalink 7:35 AM – 27 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Explains that such probability-risk experiments assume the person will never take risks again. https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf41029d3 ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/U0dq3iSBeQ”> pic.twitter.com/U0dq3iSBeQ Permalink 12:17 PM – 26 Aug 2017

@obradovits1 @nntaleb ‘s def of ergodicity is consistent with what I lrnt during my pstgrad stdies. However, @nntaleb provides a new way to thnk. abt it.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/901507397755297792 Permalink 11:31 AM – 26 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This imbecile is digging deeper, using a …1928 def. Mr Ma cKenzie go back to doing what you do and let other people on twitter work. pic.twitter.com/X3UuAJHcfv Permalink 11:11 AM – 26 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The sign of a failed academic is referring to his “thesis” as contribution. Perhaps @ole_b_peters can answer you what is meant by ergodicity Permalink 10:22 AM – 26 Aug 2017

@ole_b_peters Spot-on. Meaningless experiments. Insurance benefits buyer and seller over time, not across the ensemble. http://bit.ly/2s1JuD4 Permalink 9:58 AM – 26 Aug 2017

@nntaleb In which a Microsoft person bull***ts abt work he never read & concepts he knows nothing abt.https://twitter.com/mknz/status/901479974724554756 Permalink 9:52 AM – 26 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Corrected mistakes. (Cutting through the BS in social science) pic.twitter.com/1FZF8TxqCM Permalink 9:01 AM – 26 Aug 2017

@nntaleb In other words: risk aversion is what is needed to make things ergodic.https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf41029d3 Permalink 8:55 AM – 26 Aug 2017

@nntaleb “Risk Aversion” is fictional nonsense to employ psychologists. https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf41029d3 ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/EEjUViSaL7″> pic.twitter.com/EEjUViSaL7 Permalink 8:54 AM – 26 Aug 2017

@nntaleb LOCALISM “At Fed level, libertarian; state, Republican; local, Democrat; family/friends, socialist.” @geoffreydgraham citing broth. Vincent. Permalink 8:06 AM – 26 Aug 2017

@mikeandallie A algebra / geometry project for kids inspired by @nntaleb and @CutTheKnotMath : https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/a-project-for-kids-inspired-by-nassim-taleb-and-alexander-bogomolny/ #math #mathchat cc: @KelseyAHE Permalink 6:21 AM – 26 Aug 2017

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@nntaleb OK OK La Grotta pic.twitter.com/2aFM44a2dW Permalink 5:47 PM – 25 Aug 2017

@nntaleb 75% of @newtgingrich’s book (from page 80 on) revolves around the Intellectual Yet Idiot IYI problem.https://twitter.com/AlexPappas/status/901171827799719936 Permalink 2:32 PM – 25 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Atlanta coffee conversation w/ @geoffreydgraham @justinno @WhiteSwanof87 @su_js1 (a lot of coffee). pic.twitter.com/oLB5ayZFOR Permalink 10:10 AM – 25 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “The Logic of Risk Taking”https://medium.com/p/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf41029d3 Permalink 6:20 AM – 25 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Rephrase her question to “how many Greco-Roman classics were written by nonWhites” to”How many were written by blonds & nonMeds”.About zero. Permalink 3:08 AM – 25 Aug 2017

@lilbabykeffiyeh @nntaleb might have knowledge on this. Permalink 8:59 PM – 24 Aug 2017

@KennyAngel11 Nassim Taleb looked like Borathttps://abbeylink.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/nassim-taleb-looked-like-borat/ Permalink 12:54 PM – 24 Aug 2017

@Acho_Wendy Geopolitical Institutions conflate relations between countries with relations between governments @nntalebhttps://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac Permalink 9:43 AM – 24 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Languages mutate. We can watch the process of mutation with out own eyes.https://twitter.com/BrittPettibone/status/900707817606094848 Permalink 6:36 AM – 24 Aug 2017

@nntaleb 2) People don’t get is that you don’t assess a car by *speed* but *change* in speed. (Second order effect, convexity = antifragile) Permalink 6:23 AM – 24 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The Minority Rule actually debunks the Aryan vs Semitic theory. Meds are Meds, Nordics are Nordics https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/fZYFV1dvUv”> pic.twitter.com/fZYFV1dvUv Permalink 5:13 AM – 24 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Atlanta. Any recommendations? Squid ink, etc. Permalink 3:54 PM – 23 Aug 2017

@nntaleb If you want people to pay close attention to your posts, block them on Twitter. Permalink 2:58 PM – 23 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Fr: un clou en chasse un autre. Permalink 1:53 PM – 23 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Not a very good day to be Monsanto. An Italian proverb: one needs a nail to displace a nail. Companies, not govt, remove bad apples.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/900454905554579456 Permalink 1:43 PM – 23 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Some people are so foolish that they only get answers right when they misunderstand the question. Permalink 12:57 PM – 23 Aug 2017

@Acho_Wendy History is largely peace punctuated by wars, rather than wars punctuated by peace @nntaleb cc: @SebGorkahttps://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac Permalink 10:34 AM – 23 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Common sense wd say that if in the past censorship was seen as a thing of the “right”, those we really need to worry will be on the “left”https://twitter.com/julianassange/status/900308121024954370 Permalink 10:23 AM – 23 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Main advantage of Tesla: for daily life, we benefit more from acceleration (for safety) than max speed, since there are speed limits.https://twitter.com/mjd1735/status/900106814187950081 Permalink 9:24 AM – 23 Aug 2017

@rmnth “I can use data to disprove a proposition, never to prove one.” ~ @nntalebhttps://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/900388591259353092 Permalink 9:17 AM – 23 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The bon pensant Cambridge dons… pic.twitter.com/NLnWyAbipV Permalink 5:57 AM – 23 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The central chapter of Skin in the Game: explaining ergodicity @ole_b_peters Is it easy to get? pic.twitter.com/g6dVDSRILG Permalink 2:18 PM – 22 Aug 2017

@HarrisonSearles The American empire cannot impose a top-down peace on Afghanistan. Peace can only come bottom-up. https://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac via @nntaleb Permalink 12:22 PM – 22 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Logical/statistical error: Revolutions are preceded by resentment, but resentment not nec. followed by revolutions. see #FooledbyRandomnesshttps://twitter.com/alrik3/status/900055165713166337 Permalink 11:13 AM – 22 Aug 2017

@nntaleb For years I have refused to f. spell expletives in my book, e.g. “f*** you money”, etc. From now on, for consistency, will do so on Twitter. Permalink 10:49 AM – 22 Aug 2017

@nntaleb She is using Twitter, and, I surmise, a computer and, I also surmise, software.https://twitter.com/greenwoodae/status/900033287648714752 Permalink 9:38 AM – 22 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Problem of the education system: bitter college profs & parasites of the system drill into the head of people that wealth = explotationhttps://twitter.com/DougMartin17/status/900028062200475649 Permalink 9:28 AM – 22 Aug 2017

@nntaleb There should be no privilege for being wealthy. But there should be no shame, no guilt for being wealthy.https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/899989870478856192 Permalink 8:57 AM – 22 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I support @PamelaGeller w/her censorship by PayPal. But she is v. IGNORANT: unlike Salafis, Shiites don’t Christians/Jews as “infidels”. Permalink 8:09 AM – 22 Aug 2017

@nntaleb BS Busting Du Jour: More fundamental mistakes in Klueless Massimo @mpigliucci high noise /no signal account.https://medium.com/@nntaleb/comment-on-klueless-massimo-s-comments-massimo-pigliucci-of-the-mary-beard-twitter-debate-4c99a36de40 Permalink 7:34 AM – 22 Aug 2017

@nntaleb PHILOLOGY DU JOUR: Arabic name for Med was “Baḣr er-Rum”, Roman(Byzantine) sea. Like Persian (->”Arabian”) Gulf, censored from textbooks. Permalink 5:33 AM – 22 Aug 2017

@ExoThinker Your daily does of WTF: Nassim Taleb and other nerds discussing Talmud and Aramaic.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/899267232542453760 Permalink 10:50 PM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “How to be Rational about Rationality”https://medium.com/p/how-to-be-rational-about-rationality-432e96dd4d1a Permalink 4:58 PM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Is there a Ashura expert in the room? I wonder if my diacritical are right for the poem about skin in the game. Thanks! pic.twitter.com/8uXC3gnhJ4 Permalink 1:48 PM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Challenge a BSvendorusingscience who uses eclipse to make us believe we know climate: Predict temperature in NYC at 12:PM Oct 21 2017https://twitter.com/MuhammedKambal/status/899718155483979776 Permalink 12:53 PM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Typo! pic.twitter.com/718kTSNTTg Permalink 11:26 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb LESSON Looking like a “victim” will enbolden your enemies & make your cowardly friends look the other way. Wusses are never good to losers Permalink 10:33 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Quiz du jour a la @CutTheKnotMath @LorenzoWVilla pic.twitter.com/eSYgojapcs Permalink 9:43 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Incidentally, classical Arabic has a word, Wiq7, for both rude and right. Permalink 8:56 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@John07331405 It does mean u are rude, I think u are pretty rude. I also think you are right about everything (xcpt some comment a long tm ago about Eire) Permalink 8:24 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Average price/ average earnings != Average( If E>0, P/E)https://twitter.com/eddyelfenbein/status/899647893379756032 Permalink 8:17 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I don’t understand English Middle Class English. What does “You are rude” mean? Permalink 7:57 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb In Levantine, 3a “to” is from Aramaic or older N Semitic. Arabic/ South Semitic equivalent is “ila”, similar to Heb “la”.https://twitter.com/turlevnon/status/899605015731601409 Permalink 7:26 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Mary Beard retweets n accusations of “misogyny” & articles in press & claims she never accused me of “misogyny” Historians shdn’t Fabricate! Permalink 5:51 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb This should refresh your memory. For a “historian”, you keep being caught with misrepresentations. pic.twitter.com/Wv4SlVoYoV Permalink 5:33 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@DaronLarson “Being nice to others reveals character if and only if it is optional.” @nntaleb #kindness #magnanimity Permalink 5:00 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb NOTHING academic in calling pple “misogynists” for dissenting, using Lewinski/Rowling & misrepresenting debate @wmarybeard you’re a shamhttps://twitter.com/wmarybeard/status/899597706020007936 Permalink 4:52 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@jasperhamill I’ve seen people’s apologies used against them. Say sorry and you prove your guilt eternally. There is no forgiveness. Permalink 3:58 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Lesson I leared from UK thoughtnazis. Appease/correct them w/”I am not saying…”; they destroy you Be aggressive, disrespect: they freakout Permalink 3:51 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Evidence it is skin ink: stain on plates (and on your teeth), uneven coloring. Otherwise it is just dyed pasta.https://twitter.com/VinceBSbuster/status/899578318701416448 Permalink 3:28 AM – 21 Aug 2017

@nntaleb A project is needed to bring back North Africa to its preArab Mediterranean kultchurhttps://twitter.com/xhos1982/status/899383122009223168 Permalink 2:34 PM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The patch in Northern Syria is gone. Because Obama. MSM are despicable. pic.twitter.com/ZdXdzpQHm9 Permalink 1:52 PM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb The Armenians have been victim of a second ethnic cleansing in Aleppo by Obama’s “rebels”. You need to call things by their name.https://twitter.com/humanitasromana/status/899370286231040002 Permalink 1:50 PM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Happy Birthday Ron Paul @RonPaul Permalink 11:09 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Donald Trump’s @realDonaldTrump irreversible mistake: betrayal. You can recover from many mistakes. Betrayal you can only do once. Permalink 10:24 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Trying to explain what people don’t get about decentralization, why I loved Brexit! pic.twitter.com/QR87nNHHex Permalink 8:56 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Then here mistranslated should be “when a puny man kills a hero” pic.twitter.com/2gPFBzxVwa Permalink 7:03 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Skin in the Game is not literal, Bava Kama 84a 3ayn ta7ata 3ayn (incidentally, in Aramaic) pic.twitter.com/INkXFj60jT Permalink 6:49 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Unlike Klueless Massimo BSing on scientism, we ACTUALLY looked at what historical data can & cannot say. @DrCirillo https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2876315 Permalink 6:13 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Klueless Massimo doesn’t even know what SCIENTISM is. By masturbating w/other philosophers one can’t understand anything in the real world. Permalink 6:04 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb My motto has always been: Debate the audience, not the person. Don’t even try to convince someone that he or she is wrong. Permalink 6:02 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “Something Neither Antisemitic Nordic Supremacists Nor Arab Nationalists Will Like”https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/something-nordic-supremacists-will-not-like-44d99e8a4188 Permalink 5:30 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@zzap Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s recent interview on work, slavery, and skin in the game on @EconTalker is sO good http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/08/nassim_nicholas_1.html ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/8xDPmmMB11″> pic.twitter.com/8xDPmmMB11 Permalink 4:42 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb One shall not use science outside the strict domains it itself defines. pic.twitter.com/4RrD9t9vQJ Permalink 4:42 AM – 20 Aug 2017

@nntaleb “In investments, better to sell out one year too early than one day too late.” My friend and banker Joe Audi Permalink 1:53 PM – 19 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Can someone explain to me why Ibn Khaldoun is not banned in Arabian countries? pic.twitter.com/LI5aSQQTXX Permalink 9:14 AM – 19 Aug 2017

@CharlieHoefer Nassim’s Aryan twitter followers are not happy with him this morning… Permalink 8:58 AM – 19 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb – L’intolleranza vince sempre: il dispotismo della minoranza http://wp.me/p56cLj-3eK @vocidallestero Permalink 7:47 AM – 19 Aug 2017

@nntaleb First week of @TeslaMotors. Great to have a gas station at home. MAIN DRAWBACK: no squeegee of windshield when you refill ! pic.twitter.com/JjpE9udB2Z Permalink 7:29 AM – 19 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “Something Lebanese Arabists & Arab Nationalists Will Not Like”.https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/something-nordic-supremacists-will-not-like-44d99e8a4188 Permalink 7:03 AM – 19 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Fucking idiot, point is Phoenicians were genetically close to Greeks. Are all other “White” Supremacists as stupid as you ? Permalink 6:02 AM – 19 Aug 2017

@nntaleb I just published “Something Nordic Supremacists Will Not Like”https://medium.com/p/something-nordic-supremacists-will-not-like-44d99e8a4188 Permalink 5:28 AM – 19 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Catholic MEANS secular.https://medium.com/incerto/we-dont-know-what-we-are-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-religion-3e65e6a3c44e Permalink 3:53 AM – 19 Aug 2017

@nntaleb You can see what killed Mediterraneanism, right there.https://twitter.com/BrilliantMaps/status/898850780333133824 Permalink 3:44 AM – 19 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Even his email was disabled by Google.https://twitter.com/salilstatistics/status/898730013037477889 Permalink 3:18 AM – 19 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Of course there are other options, s.a. Burkean “small c”, etc. But that’s not what I am trying to figure out. Permalink 6:37 PM – 18 Aug 2017

@nntaleb MSM lies, smear Bannon. Bannon was against warmongers! In Syria, Afghanistan, etc. I vouch! He hates INTERVENTIONISTAS w/o #Skininthegame pic.twitter.com/ezlmu9dsqC Permalink 4:09 PM – 18 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Mediterraneanism pic.twitter.com/1SQaFR4KDc Permalink 3:44 PM – 18 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Which group best represent your political “orientation”? Permalink 3:17 PM – 18 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Was asked if am “right” or “left” +No power over citizens, neither Gov nor Corps +Local >Global (Federalism) +particular >Universal +1st Am. Permalink 9:49 AM – 18 Aug 2017

@nntaleb How to make a weapons lobbying slush fund. No wonder @MiddleEastInst loves war in Syria. https://interc.pt/2vGw0jK ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/qpdZQx1Y7I”> pic.twitter.com/qpdZQx1Y7I Permalink 8:39 AM – 18 Aug 2017

@nntaleb An illustration of the BIAS-VARIANCE tradeoff or why in some situations being “wrong” is better than being imprecise. (Superstitions) pic.twitter.com/GCSoTGcBg3 Permalink 8:00 AM – 18 Aug 2017

@nntaleb You detect Monsanto shills such as Folta (aside frm recent proof of payments): they supports BOTH GMOs & Glyphosate What connects the 2? Permalink 6:17 AM – 18 Aug 2017

@nntaleb There is nothing IRRATIONAL per se in “believing” in SANTA CLAUS @rorysutherland pic.twitter.com/MJyyRZlzAd Permalink 5:07 AM – 18 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Why “rationality” as described by unrigorous BS vendors is not compatible with axioms of rationality. No rationality without #Skininthegame pic.twitter.com/KwD3IpnqFN Permalink 4:58 AM – 18 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Fermat was an amateur, a side activity (he was a lawyer by day). He would have loved the endless supply of brainteasers from @CutTheKnotMathhttps://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/898216622447624192 Permalink 3:18 PM – 17 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Bye2tol 2el 2atil wbyemshe bi-jnezto “He murders then attends the funeral of his victims”https://twitter.com/alarabiya_eng/status/898268838239899649 Permalink 2:25 PM – 17 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Mr Bianchi @WhitesPhD, no ad hominem for “Finance professors” is for bullshitters who 1) can’t “do”& trade, 2) can’t be scientists. Gabish? Permalink 1:01 PM – 17 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Notice that it was not terrorists but a van attacking people in #Barcelona. pic.twitter.com/L4VZC56BJY Permalink 11:23 AM – 17 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Salute to @GadSaad for having the highest of virtues: frankness & intellectual courage. Let’s support him in his fight for freedom of speech Permalink 10:17 AM – 17 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Living with an oversensitive BS detector pic.twitter.com/EwrehX7oLS Permalink 8:32 AM – 17 Aug 2017

@nntaleb “Would”. Same academics who were certain that “If Trump were elected…”https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/898202340791992320 Permalink 8:20 AM – 17 Aug 2017

@normonics is this about it? pic.twitter.com/NwKMvNenSS Permalink 7:15 AM – 17 Aug 2017

@tolzasso media bias: turn the discussion about representativeness in populations into a sexist attack by @nntaleb #wtfhttps://goo.gl/9741Fz Permalink 6:11 AM – 17 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Asinus asinum fricat = الطنجرة لاقت غطاها Permalink 5:51 AM – 17 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Asinus asimum fricate, or, in Fat Tony’s language: bullshitter supports bullshitter.https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/896025438694367233 Permalink 5:24 AM – 17 Aug 2017

@nntaleb In other words, it increases distances when they are small, and decrease the larger ones… Permalink 5:05 AM – 17 Aug 2017

@nntaleb Something about PCA analyses: they preserve order but may not scale distances properly, compared to differential entropy. @iosif_lazaridis pic.twitter.com/HYFVz4zI6L Permalink 5:00 AM – 17 Aug 2017

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@Helsingor Happy Rûm day to @byzantium1200, @byzantinepower, @byzyeileen, @nntaleb, @CryForByzantium and all of Byzantine twitter.https://twitter.com/AHMalcolm/status/897926213477347329 Permalink 2:06 PM – 16 Aug 2017

@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

@mjd1735 BBC News – Awamiya: Inside the devastated Saudi Shia town http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-40950353/awamiya-inside-the-devastated-saudi-shia-town @nntaleb @lionelbarber Permalink 8:45 AM – 16 Aug 2017

@KevorkAlmassian Says the guy who funded & armed religious fascists in my country, #Syria. @BarackObama pic.twitter.com/aCPq8cZNbn Permalink 4:58 AM – 16 Aug 2017

@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

@byzantinepower pic.twitter.com/vftDoELvTY Permalink 4:24 AM – 16 Aug 2017

@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

@nntaleb This picture is more representative https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-insidious-racism-of-mary-beard-et-al-8b6b768b4575 ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/rlvb14HnUB”> pic.twitter.com/rlvb14HnUB Permalink 3:34 AM – 15 Aug 2017

@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 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 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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