Net effect of Taleb's recent tirades on me: Made me *more* pro-GMO and more convinced of "better angels of our nature" thesis (Pinker). I sort of supported them before, but my position was partly mitigated by fact of ostensibly very bright person taking the contrary view. /1
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He started talking about population genetics last year in an attempt to demonstrate the closeness of Levantines to South Europeans and it was apparent that he knew absolutely nothing, had read no papers on the subject.
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The 2,000 year old European tradition continues, from Christ to Marx to Steve Jobs: Europeans love to bow down to the angry, self-confidently asserted opinions of Middle Eastern assholes.
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