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Umberto Eco, Yiddish Proverbs, Citi, John Gray, Popper, Hayek, Bryan Appleyard, Flaneuring | Twitter

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@nntaleb RIP, Umberto Eco
Ad vitam aeternam Permalink 4:09 PM – 19 Feb 2016

@nntaleb The reason we decided to not respond to this idiot.
@nickgillespie pic.twitter.com/h4eIZfvpid Permalink 2:45 PM – 19 Feb 2016

@nntaleb The Qatari/Saudi-funded BS promoted by Obamistic bureaucrats we hear about the Syrian opposition:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html   Permalink 1:27 PM – 19 Feb 2016

@nntaleb كذب المنجمون ولو صدقوا https://twitter.com/YiddishProverbs/status/700791249624821762   Permalink 1:19 PM – 19 Feb 2016

@nntaleb Has the Market Crash Only Just Begun? http://bloom.bg/1XxEO0X   via markets Permalink 11:18 PM – 18 Feb 2016

@nntaleb Citi is a periodically bankrupt utility. #noskininthegame

Citigroup Increases Corbat’s Pay 27% to $16.5 Million http://bloom.bg/1mKMdws   Permalink 5:13 PM – 18 Feb 2016

@fjechandi One pager on #fragilitylogic by @nntaleb at the @bankofengland’s #onebank seminar launch. pic.twitter.com/pi25ILnTAX Permalink 11:01 AM – 18 Feb 2016

@BryanAppleyard John Gray and @nntaleb compose a tweet pic.twitter.com/KFZZRWJE1h Permalink 1:37 PM – 17 Feb 2016

@nntaleb John Gray knew Popper & Hayek: Popper got angry & Hayek was indifferent with criticism for same reason: they were both knew they were right Permalink 1:40 PM – 17 Feb 2016

@nntaleb john Gray and @BryanAppleyard will next explain why Guinness is better in UK and Ireland than U.S. pic.twitter.com/pkJ8uIKZnZ Permalink 12:52 PM – 17 Feb 2016

@nntaleb Philosopher John Gray & @BryanAppleyard fixated on a piece of lamb in anotherwise quite abstract discussion. pic.twitter.com/4X8RorlYLj Permalink 11:51 AM – 17 Feb 2016

@nntaleb Flaneuring in London, seeing the minority rule: stores organic or halal. GMOs are dead.
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf   pic.twitter.com/w2paMA4zCh Permalink 7:53 AM – 17 Feb 2016

Bryan Appleyard » What ‘Plebs’ Really Means

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That something is buried in the word ‘culture’. As Nassim Nicholas Taleb was arguing passionately at dinner last night, a man without culture is not really capable of understanding anything. Bankers did not just make themselves vile by abandoning their culture, they also made themselves incompetent. Lost in their culture-free abstractions, they all went bust. Or, an entirely different example, you can see how people become ignorant when they ignore culture in the debate about IQ which James Flynn so brilliantly took apart.

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Nassim at Lunch | Bryan Appleyard

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HatTip to Dave Lull

I had lunch with Nassim on Friday. He is one of the most intellectually gripping men on the planet. He is also full of helpful advice, based on Pareto distributions and other such exotica, on how to live one’s life. He applauded me for being seven minutes early – I am usually at least half an hour early – saying this was ideal, told me to spend no more than four hours a week on doing horrible things like, tax, bills and so on and strongly recommended walking downhill for back pain. The rest of the conversation was off the record and thrilling.