{"id":8323,"date":"2016-03-02T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2016-03-02T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:43:50","slug":"arabization-umayyads-professional-shills-decision-theory-sitg-monsanto-socialites-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/arabization-umayyads-professional-shills-decision-theory-sitg-monsanto-socialites-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabization, Umayyads, Professional Shills, Decision Theory, SITG, Monsanto, Socialites | Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

@nntaleb 2\/2 Likewise Abbaside Califs favored settlement of Jews in Baghdad for Arabization because unlike Persians or Chaldeans, Jews were “Arabs”. Permalink<\/a> 7:57 AM – 2 Mar 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Where we learn the Umayyads helped Jews settle in coastal Levant to displace Byzantines settlers\/traders.(free PDF) https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ballandalus\/status\/704328842530463744 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 7:51 AM – 2 Mar 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb We need good compilation aggregating professional shills s.a. Jon Entine, Henry I. Miller, Keith Kloor,Tamar Haspel https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyruskin\/status\/705028460750589952 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 6:12 AM – 2 Mar 2016<\/p>\n

@jfrias92 @nntaleb #antifragile pic.twitter.com\/hEBHcHRzPM<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 4:03 AM – 2 Mar 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb More robust (and easier) to focus on food distribution than mess w\/transgenics with unknown tail risks. #technodopes https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaraMenker\/status\/704909887956983808 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 1:05 AM – 2 Mar 2016 (Evaluating gambles using dynamics<\/a>)<\/p>\n

@nntaleb The most important published paper in decision theory I’ve seen (Peters and Gell-Mann) since Thorp’s “Kelly Crit.” https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeandallie\/status\/704793858194825217 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 2:23 PM – 1 Mar 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Even a child wouldn’t say “Even if true, Nuclear bomb expodes “only a small % of the time”. #ProbabilityRiskIgnorant https:\/\/twitter.com\/robinhanson\/status\/704692089347514368 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 1:33 PM – 1 Mar 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb More evidence that lack of skin in the game make people stupid… and dangerous. https:\/\/twitter.com\/robinhanson\/status\/704692089347514368 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 11:38 AM – 1 Mar 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Social scientists have brain problem not getting: for Fat Tailed dist ALL properties=tail. @sflicht @robinhanson pic.twitter.com\/nvYfmgI47q<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 7:23 AM – 1 Mar 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Prediction: Monsanto to move into organic, away from GMOs. They may be evil, but unlike their shills\/technodopes, they aren’t very stupid. Permalink<\/a> 3:51 AM – 1 Mar 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Inversion of skin in the game for big corporations: Monsanto Given Legal Shield in a Chemical Safety Bill http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1TKummk <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 5:10 PM – 29 Feb 2016<\/p>\n

@Danimallian Flint, TBTF, and now this. Singapore’s president makes $4.3M. Our officials are paid by lobbyists. @nntaleb https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/704470212909858816 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 5:03 PM – 29 Feb 2016<\/p>\n

@RyanHoliday “Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.” Nassim Taleb @nntaleb Permalink<\/a> 1:30 PM – 29 Feb 2016<\/p>\n

@maggieNYT Trump said he’ll open up the 9\/11 commission papers that are secret so people can know who “really” knocked down WTC http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/01\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories.html?_r=0 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 7:51 AM – 29 Feb 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Correction: Should be 2.01 (add, not deduct epsilon) Permalink<\/a> 6:05 AM – 29 Feb 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb My current list of “enemies of the good”: 1) Wahabi regime\/Saudi Barbaria, 2) Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison\/Tony Blair, 3) Monsanto\/GMO shills Permalink<\/a> 5:56 AM – 29 Feb 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb A simple way to understand why for fat tails the average is always closer to the maximum: (here 1.99 trillion) https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnAllenPaulos\/status\/704297361993031680 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 5:46 AM – 29 Feb 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb The social media comments on our Real World Risk Mini-Certificate Workshop from attendants: http:\/\/www.realworldrisk.com <\/a>\u00a0 pic.twitter.com\/w9w9EWQqle<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 5:32 AM – 29 Feb 2016<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Never befriend socialites. (Heuristic du jour) Permalink<\/a> 5:22 AM – 29 Feb 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

@nntaleb 2\/2 Likewise Abbaside Califs favored settlement of Jews in Baghdad for Arabization because unlike Persians or Chaldeans, Jews were “Arabs”. Permalink 7:57 AM – 2 Mar 2016 @nntaleb Where we learn the Umayyads helped Jews settle in coastal Levant to displace Byzantines settlers\/traders.(free PDF) https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ballandalus\/status\/704328842530463744 \u00a0 Permalink 7:51 AM – 2 Mar 2016 @nntaleb […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1219,1222,823,1221,1021,1223,1220],"class_list":["post-8323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter","tag-arabization","tag-decision-theory","tag-monsanto","tag-professional-shills","tag-sitg","tag-socialites","tag-umayyads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323","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=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8326,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions\/8326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}