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.
I think that he cares a lot of validation, which is why he loves to insult those that refuse to validate him.
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I would say that he doesn't care about validation, the reason he likes to go against the current and shit wherever he can is because is fun and a result of his strong structured and inamovible way of thinkin that may be a consequence of a hipomaniatic state. It is not bad perse
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He's doing an interesting thing. His constant rampage creates a sort of comfort zone for him. You know not to tweet him unless you got something really good to say.
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