{"id":282,"date":"2010-02-08T11:46:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/2f4701e97acf1523"},"modified":"2010-02-10T12:33:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T20:33:57","slug":"asset-international-ai5000-nassim-taleb-continued-from-ai5000-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/asset-international-ai5000-nassim-taleb-continued-from-ai5000-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Asset International \/ AI5000 &#8211; Nassim Taleb&#8230;continued from ai5000 Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When I write, I don\u2019t like to be edited. I speak in an idiosyncratic way. The publishers of my books, they told me people didn\u2019t understand how I wrote, so I just kept waiting until I found a publisher that didn\u2019t want to edit it. All editors seem to edit the same way for papers in America\u2014it\u2019s boring to read. Editors for my books just cancelled each other out. They go in and they kill your text. They over-edit me in America. If I write in the U.K., they don\u2019t edit me at all. In America, they reduce dimensiality; they are all programmed to write the same. They want the illusion of control, just as they do on Wall Street. They need to look like they\u2019re doing something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>            &#8220;There<br \/>\nis a quote by Paul Valery. He met Einstein at a party in the<br \/>\n1920s, and he asked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}