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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is this the guy who calls everyone imbeciles?

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• sus@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Taleb’s mind just isn’t antifragile enough. Or maybe too antifragile. Idk I didn’t read his book

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  • Juice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I read a couple Teleb books about 15 years ago, they’re very funny. You go in thinking they’re these books about systematic collapse, but mostly its just about how he’s so smart he gets to be friends with Benoit Mandelbrot.

    The theme of Anti-Fragile is “don’t be a sucker” which is really good advice tbh, but if you’re not a sucker you wouldnt have fallen for the apocalyptic framing of a book about how he’s so smart because he read some entry-level philosophy at some point

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• staph@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Some beliefs are more antifragile than others

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait so… his own brain isn’t antifragile (neuroplastic) enough to consider the idea that some other people his age have brains that actually are antifragile (neuroplastic)?

    You could probably make a 5 or 10 minute sketch, for econ nerds, out of how absolutely absurd this is.

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