{"id":4950,"date":"2012-11-12T13:06:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2012-11-12T13:06:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:06:45","slug":"a-3-sentence-rebuttal-of-a-2000-words-piece-by-pinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/a-3-sentence-rebuttal-of-a-2000-words-piece-by-pinker\/","title":{"rendered":"A 3 sentence rebuttal of a >2000 words piece by Pinker."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>A 3 sentence rebuttal of a &gt;2000 words piece by Pinker.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/pinkerrebuttal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/pinkerrebuttal.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And the 3 sentences:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pinker\u2019s Rebuttal of My Note<br \/>Nassim Nicholas Taleb<br \/>Pinker has written a rebuttal (ad hominem blather, if he had a point he would have written something 13 of my comment, not 3 x the words). He<br \/>still does not understand the difference between probability and expectation (drop in observed volatility\/fluctualtion \u00b9\u2260 drop in risk) or the incompatibility of his claims with his acceptance of fat tails (he does not understand asymmetries from his posts on FB and private correspon- dence). Yet it was Pinker who said \u201cwhat is the actual risk for any individual? It is approaching zero\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=164332027045901&amp;id=13012333374\">A 3 sentence&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3 sentence rebuttal of a &gt;2000 words piece by Pinker.http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/pinkerrebuttal.pdf And the 3 sentences: Pinker\u2019s Rebuttal of My NoteNassim Nicholas TalebPinker has written a rebuttal (ad hominem blather, if he had a point he would have written something 13 of my comment, not 3 x the words). Hestill does not understand the difference between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530,1,145,73],"tags":[571],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragility-2","category-contributors","category-facebook","category-pdf","tag-steven-pinker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}