{"id":8464,"date":"2016-09-16T11:57:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8464"},"modified":"2016-09-16T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:57:41","slug":"nassim-taleb-exposes-the-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/nassim-taleb-exposes-the-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class-zero-hedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Taleb Exposes The World&#8217;s &#8220;Intellectual-Yet-Idiot&#8221; Class | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-09-16\/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class\" target=\"_blank\">Full article: Nassim Taleb Exposes The World&#8217;s &#8220;Intellectual-Yet-Idiot&#8221; Class<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren\u2019t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. <\/strong>They cant tell science from scientism?\u2014?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?\u2014?those who want to \u201cnudge\u201d us into some behavior?\u2014?much of what they call \u201crational\u201d or \u201cirrational\u201d comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.) They are prone to mistake the ensemble for the linear aggregation of its components as we <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nntaleb\/where-you-cannot-generalize-from-knowledge-of-parts-continuation-to-the-minority-rule-ce96ca3c5739#.6558ggy8m\">saw in the chapter extending the minority rule<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full article: Nassim Taleb Exposes The World&#8217;s &#8220;Intellectual-Yet-Idiot&#8221; Class Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren\u2019t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They cant tell science from scientism?\u2014?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1339,663],"class_list":["post-8464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-intellectual-yet-idiot","tag-zero-hedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464","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=8464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8465,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464\/revisions\/8465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}