{"id":3048,"date":"2011-03-21T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T06:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/97f9d5af903ce77f"},"modified":"2011-03-21T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T06:16:34","slug":"nassim-taleb-and-his-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/nassim-taleb-and-his-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Taleb and his ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taleb deleted my comments, calling them nonsensical. So, I posted a new comment, telling others that Taleb apparently didn\u2019t favor free speech, when his words were questioned. I knew there was a risk he would delete my comment, and he did. He also blocked me from posting further comments, with these word:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemoved comments (and commenters) that are either nitpicking &amp; diverting from the main argument or lacking in both rigor &amp; elegance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taleb deleted my comments, calling them nonsensical. So, I posted a new comment, telling others that Taleb apparently didn\u2019t favor free speech, when his words were questioned. I knew there was a risk he would delete my comment, and he did. He also bl&#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-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","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=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}