Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. Work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.

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Tweet Dec 3, 2022

@DavidDeutschOxf @powerpig @wolfejosh Indeed. 100% verbalism, which I am trying to define. twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1599011137143836672/photo/1

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Tweet Feb 22, 2021

Gratitude to @JeffBezos: my Saga.1) As an author, I owe Amazon. Before, publishers were subservient to bookstores & their book placeme...

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Tweet Jan 11, 2021

SOCIAL MEDIA & TRUMP 1/ Remember that social media got Trump elected. Twitter decided to not be a vehicle for violent insurrection against elected government. There is no possible evidence that can convince conspiracy weirdoes that the electi

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Tweet Jul 22, 2020

The NYT suggests cancelling Aristotle. This is retrospective bigotteering; it implies moral values DO NOT evolve. People need to be judged with respect to the morals OF THEIR OWN TIME. (But we can be harsh w/Napoleon who reinstated slavery.) https:

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Tweet Mar 22, 2020

Explain to me why we should spent taxpayer money to bailout companies (airlines) who spent their cash buying their...

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Tweet Feb 18, 2020

How you *will* eventually go bust on a fair bet: Explaining the Kelly/Shannon/Thorp result & beyond.(& why nudgeb… https://t.co/Xgxs4Conkt

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Tweet Jan 9, 2020

Negative forecasting via the #Lindy effect

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