People keep recommending this to me, is it worth reading or not? Whats it about?

People keep recommending this to me, is it worth reading or not? Whats it about?

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Read it, then reread it, then reread it again. Then maybe you can have half an opinion.

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Good luck getting through the bad autistic writing

I study finance, it's shit.

I read it and I'd say it's worth it if you can stand the pompous style
why though?

> i study finance
why should i consider your opinion?

Some arab guy rambling, larping as a wise guy.

Thanks for confirming it's good

Essential midwit-core. He has enough life experience and he's read enough books to write stuff that seems deep to clueless plebs.
But if you've actually learned some philosophy (even at a basic level) and are able to scrutinize his writings, you'll see it for what it is. It's Deepak Chopra or Sam Harries tier. (Which is to say, not terrible, just midwit core.)

Hezbollah mullah thinks he is some Roman patrician. Cousin marriage >> schizophrenia aka mamzer.

I read some of it and it's okay but didn't really leave an impression on me, I don't really feel like going back to it after seeing Taleb's opinion on IQ tests.

The guy seems to know his shit, even if he's a bit pompous. I find his commentary pretty smart overall, maybe I'm just tired of people who can't, or think they can, into statistics
Then again I'm a dumbass so
Funny since he hates Harris with a passion iirc
IQ is a far more complex topic than some people think and way too many studies are flawed in some way or another
Doesn't mean we should stop intelligence research

Yes he is brilliant, and the prose is engaging/lucid; however, Black Swan has remained more timely (Antifragile articulates a now stale 'animal spirits' sense 00s libertarianism was pushing a decade ago, as we're seeing with COVID atm).

>study
Operative word here.

>Funny since he hates Harris with a passion iirc
Because he competes for the same midwit audience.
Most of what he writes reads like he's arguing with some imaginary dumbass redditor. Which is ok if you're a dumbass redditor--you can learn a lot. But if you have, say, graduated from college, what he writes should be obvious to you.

As an example, he just posted pic related on Twitter, from his "new book".
Sure, he might use some obscure statistical jargon, but he's still not saying anything that isn't basically midwit core.

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No, because Harris misuses statistics all the time, in his view. Be charitable user.
Also, I get you, but that's a basic introductory topic to actually reach his ideas. And most people are dumbasses and can't into stat, even some people higher up.
Moreover, his point is that that is, in fact, an obvious concept, except for those that have a cursory knowledge of some statistics. He says your grandma could tell you why we are so cautious against things like corona vs car crashes, but someone who saw some statistics once couldn't.

based

Makes Yea Forums charlatan pseuds who are stuck in a mimetic blackhole seethe. State enforced readings of incerto will soon be a thing, followed by mass executions of academics whose frail scrawny bodies will fill up numerous holes dug by the new ruling virile class

Ok, fair enough, I'll admit that Harris is slightly dumber.

But reading Taleb's book was disappointing. I feel like he could do better, if he wasn't so stubborn and accepted that maybe some of his ideas are kinda dumb and that he can't shoehorn everything into them.
Like that "books are antifragile" part. It made me cringe hard and almost never care for him ever again. It's pure pseudo-intellectualism, but it seems deep on the surface (or if you're high on weed).

But they are you piece of shit

The autistic writing is the best part