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I'm stunned at the gullibility of people in how taken we are with public appearances. e.g. spats b/w

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Whatever one thinks of him, it's clear from a cursory investigation of his work (or twitter feed) that Taleb is acting deliberately.

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And that whatever backlash he incurs is mere marketing for him & his ideas. Yet 'intelligent' people fall for it every single time.

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People who are this illiterate in network effects should not throw stones about ignorance and stubbornness, lest they ricochet...

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It's a simple courtier's strategy, magnified thousandfold on social media - better to be the subject of scandal than to be ignored.