Neither Taleb nor Scott Alexander consider it necessary to engage in preference falsification, which means that people that are not used to that might get angry at them and start throwing unsavory objects at them, but only Taleb actually enjoys that, while Scott is hurt.
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Can you expand on what's "preference falsification"?
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"The Gods do not like cheap signaling."
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I think he is biased by a need to be formidable, so his writing gets drenched in testosterone and his pasta in octopus ink. Not the worst quality in a writer, but I can see why its enjoyment would be lost on you :)
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No, that is sincereposting. Like Taleb, Scott Alexander is a paradigmatic thinker, which means he is willing to go out on a limb and sometimes be wrong, but he abides by a strict ethical code that involves kindness. Taleb loves to see certain parts of the world burn.
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This might be an opportunity to draw a virgin/chad meme, which probably means that one has a lot of testosterone and the other has a lot of aspergers. The testosterone is congruent with Taleb‘s formidability bias.
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When confronted with the choice between a dispassionate reporting of his confidence levels and a passionate spectacle, Taleb tends towards the latter. It is arguable even the thesis if his book (skin in the game).
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I have not met him but would expect him to be kind and generous in person. His trolling is not psychopathic, but a deeply frustrated love to other minds.
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I disagree. Shitposting is driven by the annoyance about the majority being wrong. That is different from a mere willingness to ignore the majority opinion.
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I would bet he have high endogenic levels of dopamine and serotonine, not likely the autistic spectrum, but a funny and lucky mutation that give him all the advantages of a bipolar hipomaniatic state without the depression phase.
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No idea what it is actually like to be him, and would be very careful with assessment of his happiness after only reading a few of his things.
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