The real difference in politics isn't the "right" vs "left" gradation but rather "Greek" vs "Roman". + Greek = pu… https://t.co/lALNhRkz4u
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
1- Ignore surveys. Pple think they prefer restaurants 1) quiet so they can tawk, 2) roomy, 3) no line. Yet they… https://t.co/UhWLEia1kH
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It takes five years to learn how to make money; and twenty-five to learn how to not lose it.
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"IQ" THREAD "IQ" measures an inferior form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects, meant to select paper s… https://t.co/FijLK8UO8H
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President Micron, You don’t want other countries to interfere in the affairs of France And/or sypport the… https://t.co/l50f2NLX9i
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I can easily understand that someone can hate Donald Trump. But hating Trump more than loving peace is not a morally defensible position.
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
I am very rude to *high status* people who are rude to waiters/waitresses. Usually twice as rude. Sometimes three t… https://t.co/E6jFvhEunZ
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
A Yuuuge agency problem in journalism: they care abt journalists far more than other pple. + Saudi Barbaria does S… https://t.co/tt0Jcff2iF
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Mathematicians think in proofs, lawyers in constructs, logicians in operators, dancers in movement, artists in impr… https://t.co/lLnMoYIUSK
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Happy birthday America the land of the free, the self-standing! Friends, remember that: Unless you build a habit… https://t.co/6bf0JnG1BO
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
NYT is lauching its ad slogan: "Truth". Those in the business of saying the truth don't advertise that they are sa… https://t.co/nfnemNLAqj
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Never compromise on fundamental ethics. Never. Be honorable and never read anything in the @nytimes
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
It is RACIST to penalize someone from race A saying something abt someone from race B, but not someone from race B… https://t.co/sPe44vfTxg
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As a general rule: the more you institutionalize rules of ethical behavior that should be voluntary (say anti-racis… https://t.co/0oMuZyad1H
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
A society is as advanced as its treatment of its weak, its handicapped and incapacitated.
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
When immigration is done by single individuals, it is immigration. When done by groups, it is invasion.
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
CHAMPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGNE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Monsanto lost the trial. It is not about Glyphosate. It's that the manipulat… https://t.co/DYpzn0URwL
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"A single journalist is a tragedy; ten thousand Yemenis is a statistic".… https://t.co/d6SEaxdQ0a
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
The fellow is very well trained in Stalinist methods: pathologize, punish then criminalize dissent. https://t.co/dOS3OqMDUw
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If someone told me 10 years ago that 1) The White House would be fighting CENSORSHIP by the media (not the other w… https://t.co/bJ1f3sSdHV
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
Yellow vests. Some surprisingly excellent demands: - Banning Lobbies (8) - Smaller Banks (5) - Banning MONOCULTURE… https://t.co/ygo8vLC2Ge
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
We didn't break the mafia by reasoning w/its members. Remember: you'll never break special intrsts, lobbies, journ… https://t.co/woIcHoKjPD
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
Try to be predictable to your friends and unpredictable to your enemies, rather than the opposite.
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
You can't predict business success, but you can predict business failure: someone who writes lengthy and frequent emails.
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
The problem is architects building structures to impress other architects --but plumbers don't act on impressing ot… https://t.co/sW0Rv7Hcf6
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
You are more likely to change your mind from a bad argument from someone on your initial side than a good argument… https://t.co/8Kdv0HmASo
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
You can almost always find flaws in a research paper, (partic. social science). So if you only publish papers that… https://t.co/KYjp0jDT7w
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
Last night I dreamed that I was given The job at the Federal Reserve. I walked in and announced that 1) every econo… https://t.co/Po0VOUi4Wb
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
To understand why what happens in Hollywood is irrelevant to the rest of humans: 1) How many ACTORs do you have am… https://t.co/6kVM7fpMU9
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
Have enemies; but make sure that they think about you much, much more than you think about them.
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
After 17 days of denial, the Saudis accept their role in the death of the journalist, saying "it was just an argume… https://t.co/2GJIpskwli
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
When a dominant, functionally monopolist technology company removes post by XYZ claiming it "removed posts by XYZ a… https://t.co/sWd7NQrEvL
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
When comparing salaries of government workers, consider that they have a much, much lower risk of unemployment and… https://t.co/6HukNdaEMu
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
THE AGING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES I've had a Tesla for 17 months, 13K miles. Not a single problem. Maintenance: only… https://t.co/yXMmD6305o
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
Never argue with someone with the aim of changing his or her mind; focus instead on changing the much less invested minds of the audience.
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
A prediction is wrong only if it costs you something. A prediction is right only if it makes you something. The res… https://t.co/Z8SSfuwjXZ
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
As a general rule, most "regrets" after one is caught's aren't regrets about having committed the action, but regre… https://t.co/6gEzueBS5c
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
Mathematics offer certainties but not effectiveness Engineering offers effectiveness but not certainties Social S… https://t.co/hY5906OExn
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
Alas people have done more harm while trying to “do good” and trying to “improve” the world than by trying to pursu… https://t.co/qo5Tcg1TJ8
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
Someone at dinner just asked me to define a “dictator”. Someone who doesn’t buy weapons from your government.
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
Libertarianism is about replacing authority with laws (legal systems, courts). Hard sciences (math, physics) obey… https://t.co/DGKDxbcXoX
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
What identity activists & the Stalinist pol police are doing to us is making us see someone as "person from race/ge… https://t.co/pxcmIMFP7g
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)
I block .01 % of people, which reduces BS, sophisty, & nitpicking by 99%. Sorry, nothing personal.
— nntaleb (@nntaleb)