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@CCavafy We the Alexandrians, the Antiochians, the Selefkians, the countless other Greeks of Egypt & Syria, & those in Media, Persia, & all the rest. Permalink<\/a> 5:23 PM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb The smell of mathematical inequality on Sunday evening. @CutTheKnotMath pic.twitter.com\/pKbrczGMII<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 5:05 PM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Other elementary thing *Former Belgian PM* doesn’t get is Pax Americana in W. Europe, Pax Russiana in E. Not his EU ShmEU bureaucratoBS Permalink<\/a> 4:46 PM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb For those who can’t see it, here is the link between fat tails and weightliftinghttps:\/\/medium.com\/@nntaleb\/strength-training-is-learning-from-tail-events-7aa2c074569d#.qoo5lopoe <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 8:07 AM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb He came to take my risk\/probability class, and look what happened.https:\/\/twitter.com\/trishankkarthik\/status\/833339540630822913 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 8:03 AM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb The point is that you NEVER NEVER gauge wars by FREQUENCY but by INTENSITY. Kapish? Permalink<\/a> 5:03 AM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb What I mean by Lindy: she and only she is the real expert.https:\/\/medium.com\/incerto\/an-expert-called-lindy-fdb30f146eaf#.l8mhx964p <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 4:24 AM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb The Lindy effect is Lindy compatible. “Use laws that are old & food that is fresh”. Thanks Constantine @ctheofilopoulos pic.twitter.com\/q1Lg5MVK4m<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 4:15 AM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb The beauty of mathematical visualization early in the morning @CutTheKnotMath pic.twitter.com\/nkf7gs9qQB<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 2:50 AM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb The hundred years war killed between 2K and 22K per year. Kapish? @surfnm Permalink<\/a> 2:28 AM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb This former PM of Belgium doesn’t get that this is, simply, wrong. “Wars” used to be small squirmishes. https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1505.04722.pdf <\/a>\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuyVerhofstadt\/status\/832877334260768770 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 2:06 AM – 19 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Anyone who reads Noah Smith has a problem http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/SmithBSVendor.html <\/a>\u00a0 @DominikLeusder @Noahpinion Permalink<\/a> 5:36 PM – 18 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb I was expecting that Trump would reset the tax code, foreign relations, etc. But I never expected that he would reset the media. Permalink<\/a> 5:28 PM – 18 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Particularizing from the general; vastly worse @Debradelai Permalink<\/a> 1:34 PM – 18 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 2) For Salafis, Islam is immutable law, incompatible w\/state. For Sufis, it is ~spirituality, compatible with secular state. @DalrympleWill Permalink<\/a> 10:05 AM – 18 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Sufis are the future. Unfortunately 1 generation of Saudi Money in Turkey, Syria, etc. eradicated them. Luckily surviving in Central Asia.https:\/\/twitter.com\/DalrympleWill\/status\/833004673749626880 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 9:48 AM – 18 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Imbeciles think in words! A universal principle that holds AT ALL SCALES is rigorous. Think before tweeting. @IvarsNeiders @mikeharrisNY Permalink<\/a> 8:00 AM – 18 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 3) Humanities academics are rejects w\/no common sense substituting thinking w\/universal slogans, destroying student’s discernment, reasoning Permalink<\/a> 7:15 AM – 18 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 2) Love of humanity doesn’t force you to open your living room to ALL passers by. But you may invite a few. Complex systems are stratified. Permalink<\/a> 7:02 AM – 18 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Education & intellectualization make people think in Universal terms for local problems, with no awareness of Scalability. #SkinInTheGame Permalink<\/a> 6:32 AM – 18 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb At starbucks drinking “ethical water”.https:\/\/twitter.com\/sahouraxo\/status\/832639141720551424 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 8:01 PM – 17 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@john_f_hamer @nntaleb \u201cWe love imperfection, the right kind of imperfection\u201d\u2014Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes (revised 2016 edition) pic.twitter.com\/mOxAgid9lJ<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 1:48 PM – 17 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Friday squid ink and mathematics with @a_lesniewski pic.twitter.com\/pb181J3xD7<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 10:23 AM – 17 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb For Math lovers, #FF Follow Friday: @CutTheKnotMath who makes you work very hard. pic.twitter.com\/m0ANxGxwq1<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 8:52 AM – 17 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb I watched the press conference. Trump played the press like a violin. Calling this “Meltdown” proves that Huff Post is low-IQ propaganda.https:\/\/twitter.com\/BraddJaffy\/status\/832334242843615232 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 5:25 AM – 17 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb The unnoticed fact revealed in the press conference: The @realDonaldTrump is heavily lawyered & has lawyered up even more post-Flynn. Permalink<\/a> 4:49 AM – 17 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@AssalehAmer heuristic: when @nntaleb describe something to be bullshit the odds are overwhelmingly it’s bullshithttps:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/832257892900282369 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 8:33 PM – 16 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@john_f_hamer \u201cPeople reveal much more about themselves while lying than when they tell the truth.\u201d\u2014Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes (2016) pic.twitter.com\/C8vkkOMqVO<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 1:02 PM – 16 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb I blocked Louise Mensch for 1) mental incapacity\/instability, 2) playing cheap games of sensationalism. @morningj @LouiseMensch @ABarnardNYT Permalink<\/a> 12:25 PM – 16 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Journos & other idiots are confused as hell by the Donald Trump; don’t get that he may be the *only* recent leader who never had a boss. Permalink<\/a> 10:52 AM – 16 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 3) And Saying let’s not fight terrorism because past incidence is low is like saying let’s remove pilots since planes don’t crash @foxjust Permalink<\/a> 7:28 AM – 16 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Here is the difference between terrorism & falls from ladders seen from Extreme Value Theory @foxjusthttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9dKiLclupUM <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 6:36 AM – 16 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Nice reference to my work @foxjust but Fishhoff NEVER made the distinction Thin\/Fat tails, used Extreme Value Theory, mixes tails & variancehttps:\/\/twitter.com\/BV\/status\/832201138082574336 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 6:25 AM – 16 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Maybe I should attend the class and make random arguments about what the aphorism meant.https:\/\/twitter.com\/john_f_hamer\/status\/832066353167212544 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 5:26 AM – 16 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@john_f_hamer \u201cAnyone who likes meetings should be banned from attending meetings.\u201d\u2014Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes (revised 2016 edition) pic.twitter.com\/mrs4mDYWR8<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 5:36 PM – 15 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb …imitating the choice of the most overweight male at the table…https:\/\/twitter.com\/SlimScribbles\/status\/832000324327976961 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 3:08 PM – 15 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb True left (Greenwald) is vastly more rigorous than pseudo-left (NYT, Monsantoistic journos). You can agree or at least disagree with them.https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/831838190541631488 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 4:57 AM – 15 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Virtue signaling is the information age’s rediscovery of simony . Permalink<\/a> 1:42 PM – 14 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@john_f_hamer \u201cIf you want strangers to help you, smile. For those close to you, cry.\u201d\u2014Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes (revised 2016 edition) Permalink<\/a> 12:45 PM – 14 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb pseudo-left pseudo-intellectual pseudo-lib pseudo-science pseudo-feminism pseudo-Dionysius the Aeropagite.https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuruAnaerobic\/status\/831594603950272517 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 12:25 PM – 14 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Mystery of why past planned cities worked: Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople (semi-planned), Kairaouan, Fustat\/Cairo. Where they planned?https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnDCook\/status\/831592910319677440 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 12:18 PM – 14 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Minority rule and asymmetry of demand!https:\/\/twitter.com\/careygillam\/status\/831550005274148864 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 9:20 AM – 14 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Naive empiricism, terrorism & Ebola. Please don’t read the NYT. https:\/\/youtu.be\/9dKiLclupUM <\/a>\u00a0 via @YouTube Permalink<\/a> 8:42 AM – 14 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@mns yo @nytimes @nytopinion @NickKristof your thinking is faulty, cc @nntaleb pic.twitter.com\/UDN5wfuHvB<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 11:57 PM – 13 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb We think alike. From Silent Risk (this was 2014) http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/FatTails.html <\/a>\u00a0 @ProbFact ” target=”_blank”>http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/Z5EuNrH90Y”> <\/a>\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/Z5EuNrH90Y Permalink<\/a> 10:28 AM – 13 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Knows how to handle the difference between evidence of absence and absence of evidence within probability theory.https:\/\/twitter.com\/gmax1mum\/status\/831169908440338432 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 8:01 AM – 13 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Interesting story but it doesn’t seem to show in the DNA. They must have converted to Islam. Hitti, Salibi, etc. were fiction writers.https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByzantineLegacy\/status\/831012601052135424 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 3:44 AM – 13 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb in 2016, Obama accepted ~11000 Sunni refugees and ~72 Christians frm Syria. Mr @ali_w_ali I am blocking you next to avoid twitter pollution. Permalink<\/a> 9:06 AM – 12 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Please vote on this tweet (twitter polls don’t allow pictures). Thanks Permalink<\/a> 8:50 AM – 12 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Nigel is spot on. True refugees are *persecuted* minorities, the ones Obama blocked (he accepted 20x more Sunnis in relation to ratios.)https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nigel_Farage\/status\/830820042736562176 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 8:47 AM – 12 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Friends, question for our Fat Tails book with @DrCirillo. Which graph is nicer, top or bottom? pic.twitter.com\/wpbWTP6u1B<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 7:41 AM – 12 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb This book represents FooledbyRandomness & bullshit vending at its best: Pinker boy misrepresents\/did not even understand his OWN data.https:\/\/twitter.com\/sapinker\/status\/829745377431674880 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 6:59 AM – 12 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Genetics is a dream for bullshitphobic historians. Looks like Phoenicians & Assyrians (not Babylonians) were “Indo-Europeans”. @PZalloua pic.twitter.com\/ddwyWy1NlC<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 5:10 AM – 12 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Now, you have to choose between 2 competing chief executives. Which one should you pick? The one who looks “professional”? Permalink<\/a> 5:04 AM – 12 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Baal invented sushi so people can pay a lot of money for a meal without gaining weight. Permalink<\/a> 5:07 PM – 11 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb You have to choose between 2 surgeons in a hospital. Which one should you pick? The one who *looks like* a surgeon or the other? @jamessaft Permalink<\/a> 12:45 PM – 11 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Economist hit a point: when you compare them in effectiveness to stamp collectors, philatelists get angry.https:\/\/twitter.com\/punkphilatelist\/status\/830412558779588608 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 5:54 AM – 11 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Mr @HalSinger after so much economics you need to relearn elementary properties of binary relations, such as symmetry many toddlers know. pic.twitter.com\/IL9RvuZ2zY<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 4:09 AM – 11 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Mr @HalSinger, if someone who has “apocalyptic worldview” likes my book, does it make it apocalyptic? If a prisoners reads my book… #IYI Permalink<\/a> 3:55 AM – 11 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Squid ink and Pugliese wine to rest after REWRI 4 pic.twitter.com\/qxRQZkhkDJ<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 5:44 PM – 10 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Is this true? How do we compute iatrogenics?https:\/\/twitter.com\/piktograf_mrlol\/status\/830207020498354176 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 4:23 PM – 10 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb REWRI Day 5: “All markets are illiquid when you really, really need them”. Permalink<\/a> 10:58 AM – 10 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@KS1729 @nntaleb thought of you when I saw this. complexity of the world vs successive generations of “risk management” pic.twitter.com\/bwnySwnN4D<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 10:29 AM – 10 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 3 instructors at the same time.https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesMarsh79\/status\/829731053300486144 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 10:23 AM – 10 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Managing the economy without economists is like managing a war without stamp collectors.https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNBCTopStories\/status\/830067141525204992 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 10:21 AM – 10 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb .@poetmorgan1 Expressing yourself in words doesn’t mean you thought “in words”. Kapish? And stop tweeting for Baal’s sake. Permalink<\/a> 9:40 AM – 10 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb BTW I never say that mathematicians think in “numbers” but in axioms, objects, and inequalities: pic.twitter.com\/ov57yBnS4v<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 4:33 AM – 10 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 2) Hence low risks of violence\/ unrest. In spite of academics barkings, risk of fighting is much lower under Trump than it was under Obama.https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/829669736560599044 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 5:01 AM – 9 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 1)Cond. Prob. Conditional on having voted Trump, odds of owning gun is, say 30%. Conditional on owning a gun, odds of voting Trump is >90% Permalink<\/a> 4:34 AM – 9 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Indeed.https:\/\/twitter.com\/zerohedge\/status\/829517127979823104 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 6:42 PM – 8 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Real World Risk-4, 50 pple: 1) 8 weightlifters (max DL 470), 2) 6 pple who returned, 3) 4 Italians, 4) 1 Canadian and …. 5) no vegetarianhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DyedraJust\/status\/828755748586938368 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 12:55 PM – 8 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Never expected that Antifragile would end up being influential in the White House. But I hoped for it.http:\/\/politi.co\/2jUtPVp <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 8:37 AM – 8 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@ScottAdamsSays Everything Taleb says is smarter than whatever you were thinking on your own. Especially if you are a word-thinker.https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/829028834578202624 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 11:31 AM – 7 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb “There’s A Global Riot Against Pseudo-Experts” Nassim Taleb Exclaims “This Is Not About Fascism” | Zero Hedge http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-07\/not-fascism-nassim-taleb-warns-theres-global-riot-against-psuedo-experts <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 10:07 AM – 7 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Which is why I never read and after a mistake never write for @prosynhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/stan_yurin\/status\/828947314014302208 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 5:06 AM – 7 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb There is currently a global reaction against the pseudo-expert. Who is the real expert? Lindy.https:\/\/medium.com\/incerto\/an-expert-called-lindy-fdb30f146eaf#.ks4e2m2bj <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 2:35 AM – 7 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Fooled by Randomness *precedes* Drunkards walk @investomedico . Kapish?https:\/\/twitter.com\/investormedico\/status\/828591148696473600 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 5:13 AM – 6 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb I systematically decline invitations to conf. discussing “populism” as if it were some type of pathology. Mere term “populism” misframes pic.twitter.com\/IGzbnorPDu<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 7:51 AM – 5 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb By indiscriminately attacking Trump, even when he does the right thing, the pseudoleft is elevating him & self-destructing. #Antifragilehttps:\/\/twitter.com\/StephensWSJ\/status\/828047211762155520 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 3:44 AM – 5 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Remember.https:\/\/twitter.com\/alphamelville\/status\/738640536521867264 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 1:52 AM – 5 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb One of my yet unfulfilled predictions is to see the true left fight the pseudo-left over Trump’s foreign policy.https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBlumenthal\/status\/828052045701722113 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 6:21 PM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Syriacs are high J2 and very little J1, meaning Northern Mesopotamians had no intermixing w\/Semites. Only language. @zaliin @PZalloua Permalink<\/a> 6:11 PM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@BBassem7 This is an amazing exchange. Very courageous of Trump. #FoxNews pic.twitter.com\/f0ulhYwoj0<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 6:09 PM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb If an American entrepreneur is stupid enough to relocate to France, good news. It would improve the average of both counties.https:\/\/twitter.com\/SopanDeb\/status\/827958432955260937 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 11:27 AM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Greek mytho has Europa from Tyre to Crete, Arcadia frm Ugaritic pple (Arwada). Bible has Canaan son of Ham not Shem. @wunderbearer @PZalloua pic.twitter.com\/pxL0YH6sOm<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 10:52 AM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 2) In other words the claims by Jews that they are different tribe from Cannaanites even if lang same appears true. @wunderbearer @PZalloua Permalink<\/a> 10:42 AM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 1) Looks like the notion “Canaanites as Semites” is bogus empirically. Both Torah & Greek mythology say they aren’t. @wunderbearer @PZalloua Permalink<\/a> 10:41 AM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb More interestingly, the probability of Koura people being of Arab origin is less than 1 in 1,000,000 @PZalloua Permalink<\/a> 9:42 AM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Distribution of Genes of Greek-Orthodox in Koura (Amioun) appears *identical* to Greek Islands\/Crete @PZalloua Confirms Byzantine theory pic.twitter.com\/SmvKRBCfp5<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 9:29 AM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Artificial stupidity comes w\/ overriding the Lindy-compatible in favor of some bias invented by some ignorant nerd like @r_thaler Permalink<\/a> 8:57 AM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb A. Tversky once said he didn’t care about *artificial intelligence*,he studied *natural stupidity*. I prefer to study *artificial stupidy*. Permalink<\/a> 8:26 AM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 1)Historical Intrigue du jour: Phoenicians & Assyrians likely not of “Semitic” ancestry, yet spoke Semitic lang. @PZalloua will have more. pic.twitter.com\/Igw0rq9BtT<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 5:18 AM – 4 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@BBassem7 #Saudi tweep refers to the terrorist that attacked the Louvre as a “hero” Saudis are not covered by the Trump’s ban. pic.twitter.com\/Em28c4M0OY<\/a> Permalink<\/a> 2:45 PM – 3 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@normonics Demonstrating the IYI allergy to discontinuities. Tiny changes often beget qualitative shift.https:\/\/twitter.com\/R_Thaler\/status\/826840804660436993 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 9:30 AM – 3 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Actually, they would call it… “the left”.https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/827503519305519104 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 5:30 AM – 3 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb I wonder what the Enlightenment people would call a “Left” that’s authoritarian, repressive, disciplinarian, & despotically normative. Permalink<\/a> 5:06 AM – 3 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb . @arbedout Before tweeting, think in 2nd order of why I made such statement. Check amazon, it’s #1. Permalink<\/a> 4:57 AM – 3 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Milo’s book is the highest selling book in America, 2 month before pub! #Antifragilehttps:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkEGreene\/status\/827491494068117504 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 4:48 AM – 3 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb 1) Peace: Top or Bottom? Morrocan gov pro-Israel, but popul. hostile. Iran gov hostile, but not Iranians. Which peace is easier? Think Long Permalink<\/a> 4:46 AM – 3 Feb 2017<\/p>\n

@nntaleb Antifragilehttps:\/\/twitter.com\/CDOCubed\/status\/827413609877757952 <\/a>\u00a0 Permalink<\/a> 3:07 AM – 3 Feb 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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