I would like to attend a live show in which Nate Silver just sits at a laptop on stage and talks smack at Nassim Taleb. Maybe with a cellist?
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Replying to @ZachWeiner
I really enjoyed reading Taleb but never met him in person. I really liked his way of addressing models that almost certainly ignore critical inputs or long term forecasts that assumed impossible certainty about the future.
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Replying to @CultOfSignal @ZachWeiner
Just watch his antics on Twitter for a while: Insults, bragging, and blocking anyone who starts to get the better of him. He's basically a thoroughly unpleasant person, and he's laid down some cringeworthy idiocy on GMOs.https://bigthink.com/risk-reason-and-reality/taleb-on-gmos-advocacy-masquerading-poorly-as-honest-intellectual-argument …
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