What are people finding so useful about Taleb's thinking? So far haven't seen anything original to him that impressed me very much.
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He seems to emphasize the dangers of risks not accounted for in one's models... is this the big insight?
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@simplic10 Realizing this forces a reassessment of applied epistemology and a bunch of other factors.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev Maybe it's partly his personality that grates on me; I guess the point you just made is more or less original to him & important.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev Can you give me the 144 char version of why he seems to hate all economists?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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@simplic10 In giving ideological cover in the form of fake math to bad incentives, they've destroyed many trillions of dollars of wealth.
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